2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: SANDERS OR BUST 2! Purity Pledge Edition! [View all]Maedhros
(10,007 posts)It is trotted out when the Democrats field a bad candidate and expect us to fall in line and give them our votes. The excuse has been the same since 2000, and the only reason we see this meme at all is because those who propagate it have nothing substantive to say. Try as they might, they can't articulate why we should vote for the bad candidate du jour, so they attempt to bully and shame us into giving our votes to people we don't want in office.
I never believed this nonsense, and I doubt those who are committed to real political change believe it either. It's straight-up blackmail: support the rightward slide of the Democratic Party and its increasingly corporate candidates, or we will attack you for aiding the enemy.
Not anymore. Give me a good candidate, or lose my vote.