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Support and vote for progressive candidates in primaries.
What primaries?
There aren’t any right now, but sign up to PV so you can get notified to do real change.
Ew I’m not a progressive; and what part of the 2020 primaries did you sleep through?
The Dems will literally cancel primaries in order to get the corporate choice in office.
Tried this with Bernie… The DNC rigged the primary… first goal needs to be to take over the Dem party. Which would actually be pretty easy since like 5 people show up to those elections, but only insiders really ever know about them.
If you’re curious, every state, and many towns/counties have their own Democrat party… Find yours, figure out who the shills are and get like 10 people to vote for you to replace them during their next elections. The DNC leadership is elected by the state Dems, so once you’ve taken over your state you can start taking over the DNC.
Innuendo Studios has a good video on this in their alt right playbook series. Republicans will gladly appeal to the far right, Democrats want to distance themselves from the left as much as possible and are instead focused on also appealing to the right…
Ultimately, while a lot of the parties policies are different on the surface, Democrats still win when Republicans are in power because they’re part of the same class, hoarding wealth works for both sides. Democrats seemingly only exist to make the system vageuly stomachable (is that even a word?) to the rest of America.
Palatable
As opposed to palpatinable, which is appearing to be democratic until being hit by lightning and then going all in for unlimited power
Thanks! I knew there was a real word out there
Ohai!
I’m glad someone improved it though, I was on my phone when I did it and couldn’t get the finger to overlap the sign!
So what you’re saying is that we only need to push down on the Democrats lever and we’ll fly to the left
To be clear though, it’s not a “fake” two party system, it’s a very real systematically entrenched duopoly.
And I doubt most of us are “duped”. We know this is how it works, and the best strategy is still to keep butting back up against the catch until we have reach the conditions to lift it. Every Dem victory is like a pause button on the rightward slide while we boost candidates for the next primary.
I don’t even live in the states anymore and I still vote. The rightward slide affects the whole world, can you imagine what will happen to Ukraine if Trump wins? And after Ukraine, it’s war in the Baltics. And then there’s Taiwan. And South Korea is probably about to be in trouble too, I’m sensing.
I have full clarity. When the devil is going to take you unless you play the game, you keep playing. He knows you know it’s rigged, but you keep playing until maybe you can pull a fast one. It’s the only hope.
Voting Harris is the right thing to do from a lesser evil standpoint. I think everyone should, but I understand those who won’t from an anti-genocide standpoint and won’t blame them for it, unless they vote Trump, that’s unacceptable. You might as well write in Bernie if you’re thinking Green, they got the same chance of winning. Ultimately, it’s on Harris and her campaign strategy for failing to part from Biden on Israel. They are taking that risk, which I think is very dumb and dangerous considering the sentiment of voters, it’s on them whether it pans out or not.
What’s far more important is for everyone to vote down ballot. Find out which options support progressive policies and vote for them.
You want Trump? This is how you get Trump
The primary way that the Dems keep it from going left is by keeping the stupid filibuster around, hamstringing the ability for them to pass legislation when they hold the senste, house, and oval office. They can achieve the same goal by holding only one of the three and it isn’t like the Republicans respected the completely voluntary filibuster when it was time for them to stack the courts.
You realize this is an argument in favor of voting for Democrats, right? Real progress doesn’t happen in a single day in November, but that day in November can stop things from getting worse while real progress happens elsewhere.
Ranked choices, bitches.
How exactly do Democrats block movement back to the left? What does it even mean to move “back” to the left when the goals of the left are things we literally have never had before?
It amazes me that so many people are oblivious to how far things have moved towards the right and towards authoritarianism over the past 50 years. Sure, we’ve inched forwards on a handful of social issues, but corporate power, the prison system, the military industrial complex, privacy rights, and the social safety net are all in much worse shape today than 50 years ago. “The era of big government is over” came from Bill Clinton, not Reagan or Bush. Income inequality has soared thanks to both Republican and Democratic policy. Republicans have been worse by a long shot, but they both have moved us in the same direction.
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