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It’s always a group that is simultaneously

  • big enough to ruin the election for the democratic candidate
  • too small to make it worth pursuing their votes
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I don’t see how those statements are contradicting each other within the context of US presidential elections.

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If they are big enough to ruin re-election chances then they are by definition big enough to make pursuing their votes worthwhile (because without them you will loose)

If you want a system where you can disregard that reality then you need a different electoral process. An easy way to mitigate that risk is to eliminate 3rd party candidates and make voting mandatory (or pressure 3rd parties to drop out and guilt non-voters into voting, as it were), but an astute observer might notice that looks an awful lot like something called a ‘sham democracy’.

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So just state outright that your intention is to hand the election to Trump.

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Which is a bit ironic considering this was a tactic invented by facists.

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Anything to place the blame on a small outside group and away from the main inside group who holds power and responsibility over their current predicament.

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