> > On Feb 9, 2016, at 1:18 PM, James Creegan <[email protected]> wrote: > I think Marv may be missing part of what's going on here. Isn't the very > same lesser evilist *realpolitik *in whose name voters are perennially > urged to vote for Democrats also being invoked as a reason to support > Hillary as the "electable" candidate? > > Reductio ad absurdum fallacy alert. "Lesser Evilism" taken to absurd extremes results in absurd outcomes, same as any other "ism" taken to absurd extremes. Proves nothing.
> And isn't an entire cohort of mostly younger voters showing itself to be > oblivious to precisely such "pragmatic" arguments, to the utter > incomprehension and frustration of the Democratic establishment? > > You never would have found this out now, would you, if Bernie did not participate in the primaries of the hated Democratic Party? -raghu.
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