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iByteABit ,

It’s sad for Bernie and other leftist parties that they can mathematically never get into power, but this is the smartest thing he can do given the system. Use his publicity to promote the closest party to his own so that the fascists don’t get into power.

Dagwood222 ,

This is what the extreme Right did. The Moral Majority would show up at every local GOP meeting. If the local club usually had twenty people at the meeting, the MMs would show up with fifty. Picking the candidate for dog catcher or justice of the peace? The MM were there and they made sure they got their candidate in.

Nixon did something similar. After he failed to win the Senate seat he hit the road and campaigned hard for every GOP he could find. By 1968 he had dozens of delegates to the national convention in his pocket.

iByteABit ,

A faulty system is bound to be worked around and taken advantage of by everyone that is able to. The US is very far from a democracy because of it, and it won’t change because the most powerful people will do anything to keep it in place.

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