Notices by Mark Hall (bobapril@c.im)

@AnarchoNinaWrites As I said, I was rephrasing it all IN THE WAY IT WOULD HAVE BEEN USED AGAINST HER. Not MY beliefs, but the attacks that would have been used. Hell, some of them WERE used, quite effectively, even with the campaign efforts to mitigate them by shifting right, because HER message never really got out.

I'm not seeing any signs that shifting her positions further left would have mattered a bit. The right wing has captured the information space, flooded it with lies. The mainstream media has become basically irrelevant to the old folks getting their news off Facebook and the young ones getting it from TikTok and Youtube...and they've abandoned integrity in favor of "even-handedness" anyway.

@AnarchoNinaWrites That seems to misstate the campaign plan, which was in fact, to win. Let's restate the case, in the way these positions would have been used against her - why do you assume that abandoning Israel, letting criminals run amok, opening the border to job-stealing, welfare-sucking immigrants, and rejecting bipartisan consensus on the danger posed by Trump himself would have done any better? It might well have done WORSE, losing even MORE seats in Congress and in the state-level elections.

I believe you are vastly overestimating the number of voters who would have been gained by reversing the positions you find most damning.