Ben Cohen of Ben & Jerry's goes on Tucker Carlson and says, 'I love Jesus Christ'

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32. I personally believe

that it's a grave error is strategy when we expect others to back and support the exact same things that we do at a lock-step level. There are folks who are willing to abandon all for the sake of a single or a few issues. It has never really made sense to me in a logical realm. For example, I might get frustrated with Democratic leadership for inaction on a particular policy matter, but it wouldn't make sense to abandon the party and start voting for Sanders or Trump. Some who are so invested in the Palestine issue rejected Democrats in large numbers just on that one issue alone. So they basically traded it all just to show their defiance on one issue, and now look what they got as their "reward".
I think it is healthy to properly criticize party leaders because that is how the system is supposed to work regarding representation.
I'm a big proponent of living in the stench of absolute truth, and I reject (and even speak out against) the hyperbole that gets propagated as fact in the political realm. Pick any one loud subject of the day and we will find some truth, but also littered with misinformation and sometimes outright lies. This doesn't do us any favors, and we should stop doing it; let the Republicans do that crap, we don't want to be like them. Our policy can stand on it's own merits, we shouldn't have to resort to that sort of baloney and it makes the rest of us look less informed and less intelligent. I just wish we could all be 100% honest and be willing to accept the hard truths when we are faced with it. For example, regarding the Israel/Palestine issue; I honestly don't root for one side or the other, I'm just firmly anti-war. Both sides of that fight have valid grievances, but they shouldn't be killing one another because of it. But what can a Democratic representative from [pick a local] do about it, especially with the numbers we have right now? Instead of increasing our power by voting for Harris, many decided to make it worse by voting for Trump, and that helped reduce our numbers down ballot as a result.
We can't do much to change the Republican voters or leadership, but we can change ourselves. That is where we need to focus our efforts. Making our own policy and leadership more attractive to the centrist voters is the magic formula to winning. And we need to do that even if we are forced to abandon some of the more fringe issues that account for most of the criticism leveled against us.
Anyway, I know that went off in too many directions, I just had to get a general statement off my chest.