What do you think about political parties spending big money to help boost fringe candidates?

Like Clinton’s campaign promoting Trump? That didn’t turn out so hot…

The party could do with fewer strategists and think tanks and more members with integrity and fucking spines.

@gorillapaws You will see for many years I always said to the collective vote for the candidate you want and not to try to sabotage the other side. I also think the same thing regarding the party trying to boost a lunatic to be their competition.

Regarding Hillary, I don’t know if Bernie supported it, but his supporters sabotaged Hillary. They helped Trump win. The viciousness on social media against Hillary by Democrats was destructive to the country. We have a whole subset of Democrats who only want to vote for who they consider to be a perfect candidate, instead of voting for someone who will keep the country going in the right direction. Now, we are totally off course in almost every way.

I agree Democrats were idiots thinking Trump couldn’t win. I said it all along, even though I did think Hillary would likely win in the end, but I said all along a lot of people would support Trump. I agreed with Michael Moore the whole time.

It’s a risky strategy. Sometimes it bounces back to hurt you.

I understand the theory behind it, but it seems like you may be unleashing a monster that you can’t control (like the fringe person actually winning).

On the other hand, it worked in 2020 for the Georgia US Sentage race when the republican candidate in one of the races was defeated in the primary and the secondary repub candidate ran (and lost).

Depends on the fringe. I don’t think anyone should support dangerous wackos in any way. There’s already far too much acceptance of unacceptable candidates.

Also, many people are so disillusioned and/or not paying attention, that any candidate who catches attention, even in a crazy way, may end up getting elected.

@JLeslie ”...We have a whole subset of Democrats who only want to vote for who they consider to be a perfect candidate…”

This is a gross mischaracterization. There are tens of millions of voters on the left who insist on integrity: candidates are going to pursue with their full ability the policies they campaigned on in good faith. We may not agree with every policy or even many of them (that’s ridiculous), but what we will not support is candidates with both a public and a private position or one that makes a lot of campaign promises but tells his donors behind close doors that nothing would fundamentally change. We don’t want to spend our free time knocking on doors, donating our hard-earned money, and trying to get out the vote to support a candidate who has zero intentions of actually even attempting to accomplish a fucking thing they said they would and will sabotage their own agenda.

If Democrats want to suck the soul and fire and passion out of the electorate, promoting psychos on the right and forcing lesser of two evils votes is a great way to ensure Republicans keep winning and the country keeps devolving to the right.

As fringe as Trump (was)?