"the left is the reason we couldn't elect someone to stop doing the bad thing"

Noo you don't understand. We have to do a horrible thing or we won't win.

Well you won't win if you do the horrible thing.

Decreptance ⚰️☠️: "He's a poor old man. Stop bothering him about Bad-Thing!"

Spoiler alert - the "Bad Thing" is fascism.