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Reasons not to lose your mind and accept the necessity of @YesCymru reaching across a reasonable amount of the political spectrum, a thread:
1. Yes Cymru is non-partisan. It does not represent a political ideology on mainstream issues, but is a vehicle to inject discussion of a single one.
This means that it is not representative of your political beliefs, but is instead campaigning to give us the tools as a country to govern ourselves and find our own Overton Window.
2. At the 2016 NAW election, parties clearly right-of-centre had a minimum combined vote share of 36.2% of the electorate, so more than 1 in 3 voters.
We will not achieve unanimous support from the remaining 63.8% of the electorate, and refusing to try to engage with the whole electorate when a referendum will be decided on a popular vote is a path to failure.
3. Many voters of these parties have many reasons for doing so. Many are objectively awful - many are not. How many people flip between Labour and Conservative based on nothing but a perception of which will see them with more money in their pocket every week?
How many vote on the right purely because of Brexit, and voted for Brexit purely because it was the only opportunity they've ever had to break the status quo, regardless of the consequences?
How many vote purely against Labour, and have selected a party on the right as they see it as being the most damaging?
4. These voters will still be with us if we against all odds managed to achieve independence without any of them. What would be better - the conservative people of Wales to feel engaged with a new political system, or hostile to it and happy to try to undermine it from day one?
While many of us would never vote for either, would you rather voters to the right seek representation in a centre-right party or a right-wing one?
5. There is literally no benefit to leftist politics in trying to prevent people on the right from engaging with independence. If doing so halts our ability to achieve it, we will continue to suffer the foolishness of Westminster.
If we engage with them and succeed, Wales will still have the exact same people voting in elections, and Wales has always sought to be governed by left-of-centre politics.
Engaging with the electorate of the right does not create more of them - it opens opportunities to introduce them to new ways of looking at politics.
Conclusion: Politics isn't a race with a finish line. If you want a fairer, more successful Wales, you will have to spend your whole life fighting for it.
Independence will not be the final vanquishing of the right wing in Wales, and damaging the cause because you think a pure socialist independence campaign will do so will leave us living under the rule of the modern UK Tory party on and off forever.
As always, debate welcome in the replies and my DMs are open for anyone who wants to ask questions or debate without being in the public spotlight.
