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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)I've spent decades campaigning for candidates who were too conservative for my personal taste.
I've spent decades compromising on platforms(I helped write a few state Dem platforms in Alaska)
I've spent decades working pragmatically in the short-term.
Living in the real world doesn't require a Dem to be an anti-left centrist.
Nor does it mean assuming only the most conservative Dems can win elections.
So you are not entitled to talk to me as if I have no practical political experience.
A person can be practical and still have ideals, you know.
And Iif you disagree with me, fine-but why are you so obsessed with personally discrediting me?
What is it about what I post that you find so dangerous?
Why is my presence on this board so intolerable to you?
Nothing would be better here if I went away.
As to the ideas I support-please stop calling them "my platform", what I support is backed by tens of millions of people all over this country-what's so horrible about any of them.
Single-payer has majority support in the polls in this country. Nobody has campaigned for it in Texas, so how do you even know it's unpopular there?
So does free college.
So does reducing corporate influence in politics.
We haven't seen a test of those ideas in a fall campaign, so they can't be declared to be failed politics.
BTW...I'd be working for that state Senate candidate in Texas. Will you be working hard for Beto O'Rourke, the real-world Dem who has an excellent chance to beat Ted Cruz for the Senate seat if the whole party gets behind him?