I believe making the perfect the enemy of the good is a much riskier road to take, and tends to lead to folks like Trump stepping in the void. Case in point: HRC was not any progressive’s idea of a perfect candidate, but if she’d been elected, our country would simply not be in the danger is currently is. Roe would not be in danger, the EPA wouldn’t have been gutted, etc. etc.
Brother, you said it. I would have thought the whole “not a dime’s worth of difference” bullshit that Nader brought to the table to the delight of oh-so-clever and above it all contrarians in 2000 would have been relegated to the scrap heap after, you know, the goddamn Iraq war, but it’s incredible to see it mutate and live on. Despite seeing with our own eyes what the real differences are.
