• chiliedogg@lemmy.world
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    2 hours ago

    The most famous Democratic Socialist who does the most for the movement and achieves the most for the country is Bernie Sanders.

    Note that he runs on the Democratic ticket in order to stay relevant even though he and the party aren’t always in alignment. And when he didn’t get nominated in 2020 he threw his support behind Biden even though he could have easily run third-party. He knew that running third-party would have guaranteed a Trump victory.

    Ralph Nader ran for the Green party and spoiled the vote when Al Gore - the most famous environmentalist in Washington -was running and handed the election to Bush.

    The GOP doesn’t actually want Trump, but they know 100% that he’d run third party without the nomination and kill the GOP, which is why they back him.

    The spoiler effect is real and, until we have a better system, running or voting third-party is political malfeasance.

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      You’re mistaken about bush v gore. The Supreme Court gave us bush because gore didn’t want to do a whole state recount (which is what would have been necessary to show that Florida went for him, which it did. the handful of counties they settled on wasn’t enough to change the results by themselves).

      Why are you talking about sanders? He’s not running and if he were I wouldn’t vote for him.