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Two things can be true at the same time (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Edit: this started out as a single word question. The diatribe came after my reply.

It's a reasonable question. Because I don't think she'll go far enough. And if she goes further than I think she will, I'll push her to go further left than that. I'm not nearly as far left as a lot of folks on Lemmy. I probably fall into Social Democrat on a good day. But that puts me further left than most US politics and pretty much all the politics in my home state.

I'm a pragmatist when it comes to elections. She's good enough to where I don't think she'll sponsor hunting parties for LGBTQ+ folks but I don't think she'll be trying very fucking hard to get universal healthcare or working with states to try to get rid of FPTP.

Unless your question is why I won't do it after primary season. That's because we don't fight in front of the kids. I'm going to support the furthest left feasible candidate because, again, pragmatic. I'll shut my fucking mouth, back the least fascist, and start trying to affect change again the second I can without shitting on that candidate during election season. Plus I like to take a break between election day and inauguration day because it's all so mentally exhausting and I'll be drinking more than usual for the holidays.