Coalitions have to be majoritarian to be effective. That means convincing people who disagree with you!
But what if I want to remain morally pure and completely ineffective? /s
YES! I believe in all kinds of things a lot of mainstream centre-left people would find extreme, but you have to build bridges with those people in order to win elections and get good things achieved
Here here. It's not enough to be right!
*nods* Purity tests are poison to social movements. #IWillDieOnThisHill
Yes! You can be 100% right, but going "I'm so right, this is how the world SHOULD work! Everyone who disagrees is terrible!" won't actually...change...anything. "Not enough people agree w/ me yet" may be a searing indictment of your peers, but more importantly it gives you info about 1/
this is the thing
whoaaaa kaitlin this is a step too far!!! are you saying we have to be centrists and not have any principles at all?! (sarcasm entirely tbc i'm on ur side here)
"But my Leninist cohort of antisocial people will be the revolutionary vanguard that overthrows the system to establish true democracy! (rule by us)"