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In reply to the discussion: In 18 years since Naders run, what has been accomplished by attacking the Dem party from the left? [View all]Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)You win them over by making a positive case for why they should try something else.
We COULD have made a positive case to those voters last yaer by emphasizing the great platform, a great blend of ideas from both campaigns, that was created at Philly, and by emphasizing throughout the fall campaign that young progressive activists had made a big difference in what we stood for. Yet every suggestion that anyone made here about trying that was met with derision, sneers, and false accusations of "refighting the primaries".
Why was that?
Why was and is there a preference for trying to win people over by insulting them, when we all know that that doesn't work?
Why insist on doing it the hard way when we don't HAVE to?
That's why I don't understand.
It's not as though there are huge number of Stein voters or disillusioned progressive nonvoters lurking on this site who'd switch to voting for our presidential ticket if only they were sufficiently shamed.
And we wouldn't lose any of the voters we have now if we tried making a positive effort to win people over from other parts of the progressive spectrum by emphasizing the areas where we shared common ground with them.