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No, I am saying that "pick the closest one of the two and push it in your favored direction" makes zero sense. It is like voting for the Racism Party™ and expecting them to run anti-racism candidates, or that you will "push" the Racism Party™ to be anti-racist. That isn't gong to happen. The Racism Party™ would exist to push racism, it would exist to convince you to support its platform and vote for it.
The internet exists these days. We can all pull up videos going back decades to back when they were black-and-white of people talking about the needs of "pushing Democrats to the left" and yet generations later they are still a right-wing jingoist genocidal party. There is an old saying, "the definition of insanity is dong the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." The same strategy is used for decades with everyone insisting that it's the only strategy that can ever work yet it never works.
How much longer do we have to wait before this strategy works? Will Democrats become a left-wing party election, the election after, the one after that? I guarantee you that everyone will listen to you as they do every election cycle and your strategy will continue to be the one used again, again, and again. So I am just curious in how long you think it will take for your strategy to bear fruits.