In every election “left-leaning” neoliberals always try to guilt-trip Marxists into voting for their candidates with the usual schpiel: “Your party doesn’t have enough votes to win. You are just letting conservatives win”. What do you tell these people?
Did they even say they were going to get rid of them or just that they would go back to locking up families together?
For sure AOC hasn’t been to one for a press visit since Biden took over
I will absolutely never vote for a Democrat again because of that
Not because the democrats have consistently failed the working class for the past several decades, but because you believed a virtue signaling corporate democrat was going to actually care enough to change the situation at the border. Peak neoliberal bullshit lmao also this is exactly how conservative voters think.
“Your side isn’t entitled to my vote. If your side wants my vote, they have to earn it.”
Tell them if they want my vote they can have it by just seriously embracing two (only two) of the following:
Drug legalization
Vacancy control
Massive increase in funding non-profit housing
Massive increase in train infrastructure
Free public transit
Significant reduction in military budget
Withdraw from NATO
End fossil fuel subsidies
China-style expansion of solar and wind farming
House the homeless in permanent housing
Criminalize corporate lobbying
Complete provision of free health care for all including mental health and dentistry
Debt jubilee
Climate reparations to global south counties
Sure. I mean my point in selecting these is they’re all bare minimum responsible policy choices that are obviously needed, that an informed lib should agree to (maybe not the NATO one but still). Like this is not a list of things I actually believe should happen that list is much more expansive, but these are policies chosen to hopefully provoke cognitive dissonance.
From the W. E. B. Du Bois article:
In 1956, I shall not go to the polls. I have not registered. I believe that democracy has so far disappeared in the United States that no “two evils” exist. There is but one evil party with two names, and it will be elected despite all I can do or say. There is no third party. On the Presidential ballot in a few states (seventeen in 1952), a “Socialist” Party will appear. Few will hear its appeal because it will have almost no opportunity to take part in the campaign and explain its platform. If a voter organizes or advocates a real third-party movement, he may be accused of seeking to overthrow this government by “force and violence.”
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The present Administration is carrying on the greatest preparation for war in the history of mankind. Stevenson promises to maintain or increase this effort. … The “other” party has surrendered all party differences in foreign affairs, and foreign affairs are our most important affairs today and take most of our taxes.
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Is the refusal to vote in this phony election a counsel of despair? No, it is dogged hope. It is hope that if twenty-five million voters refrain from voting in 1956 because of their own accord and not because of a sly wink from Khrushchev, this might make the American people ask how much longer this dumb farce can proceed without even a whimper of protest.
I tell them bluntly that only a couple dems have won my vote in the past decade, when they protest I bring up
Police reform (Biden: “fund the police”)
Abortion (Obama promised to enshrine it in law, 111th congress dems had a supermajority, did nothing)
Supreme Court seats (at any point when the dems had the majority they could have forced it, instead we have today’s bullshit)
Formerly student debt forgiveness (Bidens limp attemps have satisfied most of my lib friends)
Federal Marijuana Legalization (rescheduling Marijuana can be done any day by the president*)
Foreign policy failures (Iraq [Bush but dems supported], Libiya, Syria, Bolivia [Trump but dems supported], Yemen, Cuba)
Drone strikes/Whistleblowers
Capitulation towards republican tax ratcheting
General tendency towards bipartisanship, thereby stopping actual reform (looking at you ACA)
