Meet Bernie Sanders' 2018 challenger

[DanTex]

155. Obama compared himself to moderate Republican and made tons of progress.

Of course, thanks in part to the far left, that progress is now at risk of being reversed.

And, yes, it can serve a greater progressive good to push for a less progressive candidate in a district. That happens if the less progressive candidate can win, and the more progressive candidate can't. Isn't that obvious?

Sure, in the abstract there has to be some limit as to how far right a Dem can go. For example, if the Dems nominated someone who was truly equally far right as the GOP, at that point there would be no point in voting for either, because they actually were the same. But the thing is, that scenario has never come anywhere close to actually occurring. I can't think of any election in recent memory, at any level, where the Democrat and the Republican were indistinguishable.

Which means that, in reality, all this talk of the Dem and the Rep being equally bad is just stupid and counterproductive. The thing for the left to do is to make their case during the primary. If they can't get more than half the primary electorate, which is much more progressive than the general electorate, on their side, then they need to work on their messaging. But the strategy of sabotaging the Democrats in general elections to somehow get revenge for not doing everything the far left wants, that is both childish and also damaging to all the causes the left claims to care about.