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He could have said "I'm not endorsing her, until she gives us ".
What would that have accomplished other than playing into him being controlled opposition?
It's political leverage. A lot of voters will follow Sanders' lead. The threat of a lot of people not voting for Harris would have pulled her to the left, and made her give consessions. Instead, he signaled to the rest of the Democrats that he will vote for them, no matter how terrible they are.
I want him to be oppositional. I'm against the Democrats as long as they keep being the "lesser evil".
Then you’re enabling the greater evil.
Pretending to fight the greater evil, but then immediately caputulating and building out the tools that they use to be evil is enabling the greater evil. Calling the lesser evil out for pretending is not enabling the greater evil.
Can’t help but to see this view as naively idealistic.
If you like. I can't help but see continued support for the lesser evil as naively defeatist.
Trying to do nothing wrong shouldn’t get in the way of doing something right, we didn’t get here overnight and we won’t get out of it overnight, perfect doesn’t exist but better does, it just feels like roadblocks with no compromise to me. We’re never going to be handed a perfect candidate and things will never be fixed in a single election, it just seems to me like that is an all or nothing argument and that will always leas to nothing.
Well, if the Democrats were just doing nothing wrong, I'd be OK with that. But they are doing a lot wrong. Just off the top of my head:
I'm not asking for a perfect candidate. I'm asking for a candidate that isn't a monster. But the Democrats aren't interested in providing a candidate that isn't a monster.