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Yes, but I haven’t seen much in the way of wide spread and coordinated campaigns to put issues that matter in front of him and other Dems until fairly recently.
The uncommitted campaign was in April.
People have been protesting, organising, and in some cases taking legal action for ten months now since October 7th.
There’s been an international protest, legal, and lobbying effort for Palestinian rights since the late 1940s.
That’s the issue, without a group of voters, large enough to change the outcome of elections
But who swear infinite loyalty that they never actually will refuse to vote for said party, no matter what.
How do you force a party to do something it’s diametrically opposed to while insisting you and everyone will always support them and obliterating even the mildest possible leverage you have?
Yes, but I haven’t seen much in the way of wide spread and coordinated campaigns to put issues that matter in front of him and other Dems until fairly recently.
The uncommitted campaign was in April.
Yes, which is ‘fairly recently’. The good news is it did have some effect, which rather illustrates what I’m saying. Enough voters speaking in one voice, in a way that doesn’t cause the republicans to have more power, works.
People have been protesting, organising, and in some cases taking legal action for ten months now since October 7th.
They have, yes, and I take my hat off to them for spending that energy doing it, but there aren’t enough of them. Until there are enough that their numbers make an electoral difference, all the protesting achieves is ‘awareness’ amongst the electorate. Given enough time and dedication that might be enough to swell the numbers to the point they have an effect, but until that point politicians are going to carry on. As I mentioned to someone else, the opinion polls I’ve found regarding American’s view of the conflict suggest about the same number of people see it as genocide as those who don’t, which is utterly horrifying, but explains why politicians are sticking to their path. When those numbers change, so will the political response.
How do you force a party to do something it’s diametrically opposed to while insisting you and everyone will always support them
You don’t. You, as a large enough group, make that support contingent on conditions being met. The issue is that if your group is too small, it has no effect, but if it’s bigger than that, is ignored, and withholds its votes, it hands victory to the opposing party, which is likely to be detrimental to that group, so the group needs to be large enough that it can’t be ignored. Gathering that size of group, coordinating them and getting the message across is a large undertaking, but without it you’ve got little chance of having an effect.
Believe me, a website full of marxist are well aware of the power of numbers.
My point, again, is that you advocate that the only acceptable action is one that makes organising, growing those numbers, and using that power impossible.
Your arguement is bullshit, full of impossibilities, internal contradictions, and circular logic. And we both know fine well what you’re doing here. But like an insomniac cat with a ball of string, it can be fun to bat it around for a while, especially if others might stumble in here and see how it unravels.
It’s not so much the only acceptable action as the one that minimises the damage over the next term. It certainly doesn’t make organising or growing numbers impossible, just difficult. As far as I can see though, the thing that makes it even more difficult is that no one is making a clear and compelling case for a different approach. So, as I’ve asked several of your fellow posters, given the current reality, what, in your personal opinion, should people do, and what do you expect the outcome of that to be?
