Originally Posted by
aja_christopher
No one is arguing that moderate Democrats (and Republicans) don't occasionally lose elections: what is being asked is how many progressives win in comparison.
The fact that you -- and many others -- won't even answer that proves that you know better than to even try to do so.
If you could be honest and just admit that moderate Democrats statistically do far better in elections than progressives and then go on to point out -- based on factual data -- why Sanders is different and has a better chance than those who came before him, then we could have an honest conversation about why it would make more sense to support Sanders than Biden going into the general election.
Instead we continually get diversions, distractions, slander, and outright lies regarding past elections, to the point where you'll even ignore the fact that it was moderate Democrats who won most of the elections in 2018, all so that you can promote a candidate who got beat by millions of votes in the primaries and couldn't even make it to the general election in the same year that you keep bringing up as being the end-all be-all of political contests.
If anything, the evidence shows that "moderate" Democrats -- like Hillary -- who try to appeal to a "progressive" base tend to lose general elections, and that Biden is smart to let Sanders do his thing, while Biden goes with what led to landslide victories for Obama during both 2008 and 2012, as well as what worked for moderates in the landslide Democratic midterm victories of 2018.
Don't try to argue why Biden will lose when moderates have a solid record to stand on -- explain why Sanders will win when progressives don't.