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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)We can't get progressive votes for our ticket by simply browbeating people into supporting the ticket.
This year, for example, we had a lot of good stuff in the platform...why didn't the fall campaign remind people of that?
Why didn't it run ads in states where the Sanders campaign had done well that emphasized that that movement had scored real victories on policy and had made a difference in national discussion? Why not appeal to THOSE voters by validating them? Doing so wouldn't have driven anyone else away.
Why not campaign on what we were FOR, rather than primarily on warning about how horrible Trump was?
We had nothing to hide. We weren't devoid of ideas. Our unity proposals were overwhelmingly popular.
It's not as though there were votes we could win, but ONLY if the fall campaing pretended no Sanders items were adopted, or only if the Sanders movement was treated as an absolute pointless failure whose supporters should be ashamed of themselves for even trying.
I ask these questions as one of the hundreds of thousands of Sanders supporters who worked like hell for the Clinton-Kaine ticket all fall.