Like what are the practical steps to take? Stuff like universal healthcare isn’t even a controversial policy. How do we form a voting bloc around that?

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It’d be more effective to try and get progressives into lesser positions, first - local government, state government, congress. Going straight for the presidency is a non-starter unless you can get the democratic party to buy in, which won’t happen. Putting progressives into office elsewhere, especially if it forces the dems to start cooperating with them to pass policy, is an easier and more realistic starting point.

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Support ranked choice voting initiatives at a local level, then state level, then national level. This bottom-up approach is quite practical, though it takes some time to complete.

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We need folks <55 to show up for every single election to get progressives elected into local, state and national positions.

2016 is when the youth vote started reliably turning up for presidential elections. That’s great but it’s not enough to drive policy change, we need young folks participating in primaries (which they tend to sit out,) congressional elections, state elections, county elections and local elections to build real political power

>55 still outnumber <35 by anywhere between 2:1 and 8:1 in almost every election except the presidential race. Until that changes progressive candidates don’t have a chance at local, state and national positions that act as the springboard to higher office and progressive stances aren’t a day to day political priority.

TL;DR: The <55 vote needs to turn out in force for every election every year (plus primaries!) and vote for progressives that represent their interests. Until that happens politics will remain dominated by neoliberal and conservative homeowners who show up reliably every time.

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Bernie Sanders has pointed out that he was happy with Biden passing the progressive legislation coming out of Congress. If you want something like universal healthcare, it is going to take a Democrat controlled Congress with enough margins to allow for minor dissent from some Senators.

Time to start becoming more involved in congressional elections.

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You can’t. The USA political system is capitalist-as-opposed-to-humanist. It exists to serve capital. You will have to look elsewhere for humanist concerns.

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