Reply #147: You either misunderstand, or are fantasizing yourself. [View All]

[zoeyfong]

The fact is, that if democrats lose a few times in a row due to low dem turnout or green party splitting, they will reconsider their strategy. If in effect, *democrats* show democratic candidates the door, they *will* change their strategy. That's not fantasizing, that's reality. Politics is all about winning and losing; as a 'realist' you should know that. Now it is possible that after suffering such losses the democratic party could simply abandon the left completely and move further right in order to pick up votes. The 'move right' strategy has been tried several times and failed, so my wager is on dems finally trying a move the other way. Personally, i'm going to write in a Dean, but you are really dreaming if you don't think not voting has an impact on the eventual winner. If 538 more democrats had been motivated enough to show up at the polls in Florida in 2000, Al Gore would be president now.