>once you get past our general apathy to voting...we just do
>shortsighted shit to hand over elections to republicans again
>and again.
>
>like im helping work on a campaign in ny district 19 for this
>brilliant brotha named antonio delgado. we got a great
>opportunity to unseat repub john faso. theres so much energy
>and organization on our side. but 4 fucking left-leaning
>independents joined the race. all running on a platform that
>includes some common progressive stance (delgado doesnt
>support medicare 4 all because this is a rural slightly
>conservative district). so you know they are gonna grab some
>dem progressive voters. one of them is the typical green
>party spoiler. another is a fucking ditsy ass law and order
>svu actress named diane neal who is basically just running as
>a vanity project. she isnt even mounting a serious campaign
>but she has name recognition and hollywood friends boosting
>her.
>
>this district hasnt had a 3rd party candidate in 16 years.
>but all these niggas wanna hop in the one year we actually
>have a chance to win smh.
>
>and i have feeling cynthia nixon is gonna get beat in the dem
>primary for ny gov then stay on the ballot in the general via
>the workers family party. and end up siphoning votes from
>cuomo (along with an upstate dem running as independent too).
>in a year where we *absolutely* need a dem governor of ny to
>pass a bill closing the double jeopardy loophole so trump or
>his associates can be prosecuted for crimes they get federal
>pardons for
>(https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/04/schneiderman-double-jeopardy/558389/).
>
>and these fucking people are hell bent on own-goaling a
>republican win smh.
>
>i have no idea why we cant see the bigger picture and move
>maturely/strategically like repubs fam.

I think that's a symptom of progressives' general ideology to a certain extent. In other words a lot of the platforms that progressives push have to do with a general optimism, and a general belief that all people are inherently good and trustworthy. So they trust that if they just keep doing the right thing and pushing the "right" platforms/ideas, eventually the chips will fall into their rightful places.

But conservatives prove that even if they are in the minority, they're willing to work harder, and work OVERTIME to achieve their white supremacist, bigoted, outdated bullshit goals and the left/progressives almost stubbornly refuse to try and keep up. Hence why we keep spinning our wheels in terms of progress.

I'm not necessarily saying that the left needs to go dive headfirst into the dirt with Repugs, quite the opposite. Just that we need to be far better at, as you rightfully said, seeing the big picture, being strategic, supporting/backing the folks who *can* win even if we may not fully agree with them, and not stepping on our own toes.