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What do you think would happen it the Democratic Party in the US made a hard pivot to policies championed by Jill Stein and Bernie Sanders? (self.asklemmy)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by cheese_greater to c/[email protected]

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EDIT: I should clarify, by Jill Stein, I mean what her party's official platform and policies are, as reflected by her statements in interviews

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[–] zxqwas 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

But every vote from the center is a vote you deny the other party.

So extreme left/right policies have to be twice as popular to be worth it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

For starters, there are only right and extreme right policies among the Dems and Reps. Secondly, there is a massive pool of disaffected voters that would vote for a lukewarm progressive like Bernie, who was projected to even steal Trump voters, because progressive policy is popular. The Dems ran rightward and lost their voters in general.