Bingo. The rhetoric exists specifically to deter any consideration about defecting from the party line because they aren’t actually of the left, they are the right wing defense of the capitalist status quo; the same capitalist status quo that is currently devolving into fascism in its late stages.
“I can prove with statistics that you’re a Nazi enabler (just as long as you don’t look at the statistics, and also you make all the same assumptions as me about how other people would have voted in my hypothetical scenario)”
Well yeah? You didn’t think they were being earnest, the point has always been to get you to shut up and simply vote for whoever they want you too.
Bingo. The rhetoric exists specifically to deter any consideration about defecting from the party line because they aren’t actually of the left, they are the right wing defense of the capitalist status quo; the same capitalist status quo that is currently devolving into fascism in its late stages.
“I can prove with statistics that you’re a Nazi enabler (just as long as you don’t look at the statistics, and also you make all the same assumptions as me about how other people would have voted in my hypothetical scenario)”