Senator’s bid to make US military support conditional on whether Israel is violating human rights in Gaza fails by 72 votes to 11
You, in another comment chain, are advocating for voting third party and advocating against grassroots change like Unionization and winning local elections. If you realize the top will never ever allow change in the regime, then why are you advocating against bottom-up pressure, and advocating for knowingly spoiling your vote?
There is nothing wrong with Unionizing. Just voting for the Nazis at the helm.
The point is what Bernie had proven. The Democrats will never change if you try to work with them or join them. This is similar to the excuse of Democrats “trying to find a middle ground” for Republicans voters that will never vote for them anyways and adopting right wing policies.
The party is rotten from the top. This is why progressive people made third parties to begin with. Because changing a rotten organization from the inside isn’t possible. You need a new organization to replace it.
You directly said that grassroots activism, ie Unionization, is akin to grassroots genocide, so I’m glad you’re walking that statement back.
The Democrats will not change if you work with them or join them, yes, neither will the Republicans, and third parties will absolutely never gain any traction without significant grassroots change like Unionization.
By voting third party without building up mass grassroots change, you’re spoiling your vote and enabling fascism. You can’t just vote a third party into office without genuine pressure from the bottom.
Again, read Reform or Revolution. You can’t change the Dems, and you can’t change the two party system itself, via voting. You understand that the dems can’t change, so then why do you think the entire US can change just with electoralism?
I made it 15 minutes through the paper you recommended and then gave up because there doesn’t seem to be a conclusion anywhere just a massive irrelevant story.
I don’t even know who she’s referencing in her story and I’m sure as hell not going to read some bank simp paper to find out.
I can recommend you this podcast that perfectly predicted every single thing that is happening today in America and israel. From an actual progressive that can use coherent words. The weird thing is that this was recorded two years ago. And it feels like this podcast was recorded yesterday
Not the one concerned, but the two party system used to include the wigs. One party can get dismantled and I think it would only happen with bottom up pressure, and grass roots.
Yep, that’s my point entirely. With the current two party system, voting third party is purely a spoiler vote without mass grassroots pressure like Unionization and winning local elections. They’ve argued against building up that bottom-up pressure as pointless, and instead advocated for voting third party, getting the order entirely wrong.
With the current dem/rep split, voting Democrat is what leftists should do purely as loss prevention. It’s only with genuine outside, bottom-up pressure that third party could ever be viable.
Voting Democrat hurts any leftist credibilty and promotes complacency.
It will only shift the system further right. Then Right wingers will complain about whichever incompetent Democrat is in charge at the time is actually responsible and we need an incompetent Republican instead.
The longer you vote for people like Biden, the more people will believe in Trump or an even worse Fascist that will rise up.
