I think many ITT need to hear this: perfect is the enemy of the good.

Hope and strive for perfection, sure! But anyone looking for a candidate that is going to exactly mirror their own own views on policy are as misguided as those who voted for the orange shit stain because he “talks just like me.”

That’s such a copout though. There is like 3% of the population that won’t vote Democrat because they’re not super-based anarcho-communists or whatever. There is a far larger percentage of people that won’t vote Democrat because they fucking suck at doing half of what they promise, and only promise a quarter of what they should. Perfect is the enemy of good; good should be the enemy of student loans, or for-profit healthcare, or, oh yeah, fucking genocide. I voted for Kamala, I pushed people to vote for Kamala, but holy shit you can’t just bury your head in the sand and pretend that everyone who didn’t vote for her was just purity testing.
Good thing I didn’t say what you said i said.

I think many ITT need to hear this: perfect is the enemy of the good.

Possibly true, but not why we are where we are

Hope and strive for perfection, sure! But anyone looking for a candidate that is going to exactly mirror their own own views on policy are as misguided as those who voted for the orange shit stain because he “talks just like me.”

Again, not why we are where we are, and it’s a copout to say that. Here’s why:

Good thing I didn’t say what you said I said.

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I’m so tired of these takes. Trump won. I could care less if the next one is a slightly left of center corporate Democrat. The GOP has to be avoided at all costs.
The only way to avoid the GOP is to burn the existing Democratic party to ashes. That’s the lesson of the last three elections. The current Democrats are not capable of winning elections against the GOP.
Agreed there is no path to reform here.