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So instead, people have started accusing leftists of voting Trump directly because a few people did vote for both people like AOC and Trump

Dems: We need to dump our entire GOTV strategy into swing voters that will vote for either democrats or republicans.

Also Dems: Those swing voters splitting their ticket are pure evil.

It’s an extremely stretched, you have to squint to see it, analogy, but I guess Nader would be the closest figure. The Dems leveraged his 2000 campaign to convince libs and the center-left that any failure of the Dem establishment is the fault of ideological leftists and ergo any leftist who doesn’t bend the knee is not to be trusted. 20 some odd years later, here’s Kamala pitching to “Liz Cheney Republicans” rather than offering an inch to the left.

Who’s Rosa in this analogy?

Brings new meaning to the phrase “come in my back door tonight.”

The tolerance paradox only exist if you see tolerance as some logic puzzle rule and not a practical outcome for the lives of the marginalized.

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In the case of the open primaries, if you’ve got a state where one party regularly gets 55-60 percent of the vote, open primaries just opens up the possibility of the minority party voters plus 10-ish percent of majority party voters with independent/antiestablishment streaks banding around a moderate/independent majority party candidate. Which threatens the majority party, so they campaign against it.

In the case of RCV, in primaries there’s often several antiestablishment candidates and one establishment candidate. FPTP ensures the establishment candidate wins whereas in RCV it means the antiestablishment vote could be great enough to filter to one winning candidate. In the general, the same principle applies as in open primaries, so once again the parties campaign against it.

If memory serves there was never anything concrete enough to bring charges, but a lot of smoke

“I want Trump to force my grandkids to talk to me” neocons vs “status quo brunch” neocons

“I want Trump to force my grandkids to talk to me” neocons vs “status quo brunch” neocons