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I’m just speaking for myself here but every day it’s harder for me with her. It’s not her trying to appeal to the right by itself. It’s bringing Dick Cheney into the fold in the context of how little she’s done to do the same for people further on the left. Especially where Gaza is concerned. The gestures don’t have to be grand but they are glaringly absent

The way I see it, any position I have that represents a political power minority is not likely to be the path to obtaining the power I need to enact different policy. 

It’s a Machiavellian game, made worse by non-proportional, non-majoritarian republic structures like the Senate and Electoral College.

I don’t need a superhero to inspire me. I need an operative to do whatever it takes to penetrate power. Warmly acknowledging people like me might not be that operative’s winning strategy.

"Politics is for Power" should be mandatory reading in school. 

So much of American politics gets lost in idealism and a misunderstanding of why you *have* to choose the lesser of two evils. The US is so diverse, very few people's ideal policy positions will ever be fully covered by a candidate.

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Power consolidation=evil.

But we’re not a democracy. We’re a republic. Hillary Clinton and Al Gore won the popular vote. Non-logarithmic polling (on linear scales) is irrelevant because that’s not how power is obtained in the United States.

We’ve been “winning” on linear scales and losing power consistently.

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To my earlier point-- wouldn’t the condition under which appeasing leftists is Harris’s winning strategy also be a reality in which her base is less loyal to her than Donald Trump’s base is to him?

If Harris’s base is innately less loyal and less tolerant of her appeasing behavior towards the opposite side— hasn’t that base lost the election because they’re not being as good a base for their candidate as the opposition is for theirs?

But what if it is the winning strategy? I think it is. She should be doing more for the left not just because it’s right but because it’s a winning strategy (imo).  Most aren’t asking asking for grand promises. Any genuine acknowledgment would be nice