I wish you understood more about politics to understand the fact that such things can make small contributions towards shifting the overton window and that not every mentioning of him on this board is some hopeful trying to will him to some impossible upset victory.
such things can make small contributions towards shifting the overton window
That isn't what is happening. No leftists are reading this. All it does is erode support for a realistic solution.
There is no benefit to promoting RFK Jr. or even mentioning him on here, because he serves one purpose: siphon votes away from the right. That doesn't help anyone at the moment.
Can't say I agree. There is no point in being ignorant. RFK serves a good purpose of shifting the overton window of what is acceptable for "liberals" to say. If he wins the nomination we can worry about him siphoning votes from the right. But he won't. And the type of person whose vote he would siphon would never vote for whoever wins the nomination instead of him.
At some point you'll need to separate 'ignorance' from 'reality'. The reality is that RFK won't win the nomination but he'll be paraded around as an 'alternative option' to Republican voters.
His job is to siphon off people from voting red, not win anything. He understands his job as foil and plays it well. He'll be financially supported for doing this, just like Bernie was.
Like I said I wish people understand politics better. A lot of it is just old men getting paid for causing problems and sacrificing their morals.
How is he going to be an alternative that siphons a non-trivial amount of votes if he doesn't win the nomination? Are you saying he will run 3rd party or that there will be a mass write-in campaign? In either case, it is hard to imagine any meaningful number of right wing voters going for it.
When I see RFK saying shit I think of people like my grandmother and a lot of people from her generation. People who worship JFK and vote blue no matter who to this day despite their values not aligning with the current left. People like that who have never had a single anti-establishment opinion in their entire life but who pay attention to RFK because of the Kennedy name and are thus being exposed for the first time. It can have some uses.
I wish you understood more about politics to understand the fact that such things can make small contributions towards shifting the overton window and that not every mentioning of him on this board is some hopeful trying to will him to some impossible upset victory.
That isn't what is happening. No leftists are reading this. All it does is erode support for a realistic solution.
There is no benefit to promoting RFK Jr. or even mentioning him on here, because he serves one purpose: siphon votes away from the right. That doesn't help anyone at the moment.
Can't say I agree. There is no point in being ignorant. RFK serves a good purpose of shifting the overton window of what is acceptable for "liberals" to say. If he wins the nomination we can worry about him siphoning votes from the right. But he won't. And the type of person whose vote he would siphon would never vote for whoever wins the nomination instead of him.
At some point you'll need to separate 'ignorance' from 'reality'. The reality is that RFK won't win the nomination but he'll be paraded around as an 'alternative option' to Republican voters.
His job is to siphon off people from voting red, not win anything. He understands his job as foil and plays it well. He'll be financially supported for doing this, just like Bernie was.
Like I said I wish people understand politics better. A lot of it is just old men getting paid for causing problems and sacrificing their morals.
How is he going to be an alternative that siphons a non-trivial amount of votes if he doesn't win the nomination? Are you saying he will run 3rd party or that there will be a mass write-in campaign? In either case, it is hard to imagine any meaningful number of right wing voters going for it.
When I see RFK saying shit I think of people like my grandmother and a lot of people from her generation. People who worship JFK and vote blue no matter who to this day despite their values not aligning with the current left. People like that who have never had a single anti-establishment opinion in their entire life but who pay attention to RFK because of the Kennedy name and are thus being exposed for the first time. It can have some uses.