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In reply to the discussion: This election is a binary event. Calling for Obama's defeat *IS* advocating for Romney's victory. [View all]TrollBuster9090
(5,954 posts)in the 2000 election, and sending a message to the DNC. That worked out REALLY well.
Please. We're not talking about paper training a dog, here. It doesn't happen in increments. Elections have consequences.
Good or bad, perfect or flawed, we're not talking about four more years of Obama. We're talking about 25 more years of a reactionary Supreme Court turning the country over to multinational corporations and plutocrats. The next occupant of the white house is going to nominate two or three Justices to the Supreme Court, who will rule for the next 25 years. Conservatives GET this. Liberals do not.
The reason the country's politics is as far right as it is now (much farther to the right than the peoples' actual views, although they'd never know it) is because conservatives have WORKED at it for nearly 50 years from the BOTTOM UP, not from the TOP DOWN. Crafting the message, organizing PACs, stacking the courts.... NOT by chopping the knees out from underneath the most visible player on their team, the Presidential candidate. Frankly, the fact that they've recently STARTED chopping down their presidential candidates for not being conservative enough is going to be what ultimately destroys their movement. The Tea Party purists who purge their primaries are going to be the undoing of the Republican Party. Not now, but ten years from now you'll see the effects. The Democratic party shouldn't be imitating the Republicans' biggest mistake. A mistake they've only started to make RECENTLY.