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In reply to the discussion: To the people who keep saying "get over it" about the far-left's sabotage of our nation: [View all]caraher
(6,365 posts)While I do know a minuscule number of people who believe electing the worst candidates will help usher in some kind of revolution, for the most part the Greens and Bernie-or-Bust people (as well as 2000 Nader voters) simply have an idealistic view of politics (particularly in the context of US winner-take-all elections) that is too frequently at odds with political reality. Calling their outrage over Trump's depredations "feigned" is not merely insulting, it is dead wrong.
The way forward is to help those who will listen realize that politics is frequently about pragmatism and compromise, and let go of the grievance against those who cannot or will not agree with us. The purists willing to shoot themselves in the foot exist on the right as well as the left, and are not the ones to spend our energies on. The people worth that effort are the previously disengaged, who vastly outnumber the likes of Sarandon and who should become a receptive audience as the horrors of the Trump era continue to multiply and affect their daily lives.