Democratic Unity

[Filuwaúrdjan]

The only substantive difference I see between Hillary and any Republican nominee is on abortion rights--which is important, but not important enough for me to vote for a more appealing alternative.

If that's true of Clinton, it's also true of Obama; there's hardly any real policy or ideological differences between any of the top two-and-a-half Democratic candidates. O/c there are certainly differences between the three, but not that sort.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Nixon wasn't really a rightist.

Oh he was... it's just that he was clever enough not to let his actual views influence policy when votes were at stake.

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Catastrophes seldom shift countries to the left.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

The Great Depression certainly did.

...in the United States (and even then only indirectly) but not everywhere. The Depression gave the world Hitler after all.

O/c hoping for an economic catastrophe on the basis that it will swing people to the Left is one of the stupidest sub-Marxist delusions out there.