It’s an earthquake to have Bernie Sanders’s candidate defeat Gretchen Whitmer’s candidate in Michigan. But the real goal is to keep Donald Trump’s candidate from winning this seat.
  • inclementimmigrant@lemmy.worldOP
    4110·
    22 days ago

    Yeah, blue no matter who right you bunch of worthless, hypocritical assholes?

    I’m stuck having to vote for Katie Hobbs who’s supposedly running with a god damn Republican so you assholes better man the fuck up too.

    • LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net
      241·
      22 days ago

      I mean some of us who said that actually meant it. Despite all of the wailing, tactical voting remains the correct way to participate in first past the post elections, even for leftists.

      • SwingingTheLamp@piefed.zipEnglish
        31·
        22 days ago

        Tactical voting may be the correct way to participate in FPTP elections, but unfortunately still doesn’t lead to a good outcome, just like leaping out the window of a burning skyscraper to avoid being burned alive is the better choice.

        • LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net
          32·
          22 days ago

          I agree with you. I should have said that–organizing outside of electoral politics is essential.

      • Eldritch@piefed.worldEnglish
        64·
        22 days ago

        Yeah, it makes for a simple effective slogan. Unfortunately the neoliberals specifically are the big flaw in it. As they openly won’t. There needs to be a simple catchy way to convey voting against Republicans in the most effective way possible. Which often but not always would be voting blue.

          • Eldritch@piefed.worldEnglish
            21·
            22 days ago

            Because it isn’t and unfortunately can’t be. That’s the sort of luxury only someone with control can be afforded. And we don’t have that. Unless you’re privileged enough to live in a blue state/region.

            Sometimes you have to Ally with someone else you would normally be against just to make sure the worst possible person doesn’t succeed. That is, if you hope to accomplish anything. Otherwise it’s just empty virtue signaling here.

      • architect@thelemmy.club
        2·
        22 days ago

        Tactical voting from a group of people that only have propaganda to work with instead of facts means you’re just guessing.

    • TheGoldenV@lemmy.world
      2110·
      22 days ago

      So now that it’s done Haley Stevens is going to concede and back El-Sayed right? Blue no matter who???

      We’re fucking waiting you little hobbit.

      Edit: I should have looked harder. She did do those things. My bad.

      • gwheel@lemmy.zipEnglish
        322·
        22 days ago

        A quick search shows she already did, what’s with the vitriol?

        • TheGoldenV@lemmy.world
          61·
          22 days ago

          I guess you commented as I was checking and making the edit. Yep, you’re right.

          The vitriol is real, but in this case undeserved.

        • Eldritch@piefed.worldEnglish
          61·
          22 days ago

          There historically has been a lot of reluctance to. And there was a lot of dirty campaigning in the primaries. Like what you’d expect in the general normally. Not to mention there’s been a lot of baseless neoliberal pearl clutching, not strictly related to this in particular that’s already getting ugly. It was never a given they would concede magnanimously. But so far it seems they have. Which is good. Hopefully the sooner people like James Carville or Bill Maher switch their registrations to Republican. The situation will only improve.

        • TheGoldenV@lemmy.world
          3·
          22 days ago

          Holy smokes broski! And you made your comment literally hours after I immediately corrected myself in the edit.

          So…… I gotta ask, your thinker broken or what?

    • Godric@lemmy.world
      62·
      22 days ago

      https://www.commondreams.org/news/abdul-el-seyed-democratic-endorsements

      “Shortly after The Associated Press projected El-Sayed as the victor in the closely watched primary, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee Chair Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) released a joint statement supporting the newly minted nominee.”

      "Abdul El-Sayed has run an energetic campaign that inspired thousands of Michiganders across the state, with a clear focus on lowering costs and standing up for working families,” they said. “Democrats are united by a common purpose: putting a check on [President] Donald Trump by defeating his Republican enablers and taking back the Senate.”

      Rep. Haley Stevens (D-Mich.), El-Sayed’s top rival for the Democratic nomination, conceded the race on Wednesday morning and offered “my full support as we work to defeat Mike Rogers this November.”

      Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, who had endorsed Stevens, also threw her support behind El-Sayed and all other Michigan Democratic candidates. “They’ve got my support as we fight like hell together to win in November,” said Whitmer. “Together, let’s stop MAGA Republicans so we can get to work and deliver results for the people of Michigan.”

      It explicitly is “vote blue no matter who”, you raging illiterate.

      Maybe if you organized and formed a broad grassroots movement based around communication to catch a W, like Michiganders did, instead of being a vitriolic dickhead, you’d have better options.