Kind of sus

Understandable, but as a Canadian who has voted many times, but never Liberal, NDP, Progressive Conservative/Reform/Alliance/“new” Conservative/WTF-they-might-call-themselves-in-the-future, and one who gets flak and downvotes because apparently a lot of leftist progressive Americans (even Noam Chomsky) believe that people should shun 3rd parties and vote Democrat (such as Chomsky saying Clinton was preferable to Green or others), and work within the Democratic party, even though the last time they had a relatively progressive candidate, IIUC, in 1972, he lost 49 states.

So when a person protests wt:thons progressivism, leftism, and/or socialism, I ask who they voted for (did they vote for Harris? Biden? Clinton? (as I think of it) Obama a second time? Kerry? Gore? Slick Willie a second time?).

Take the Planer scandal.

my post: https://lemmy.world/post/49274836

It’s now going to be a choice between Collins or Platner’s replacement, who might or might not be Troy Jackson, even though it seems that a group who collected 4000 signatures before June (this year—2026) could have fielded a candidate for senator—not field a contender for the Democratic party nomination, but a candidate in a senate race—far more to their ideological liking.