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Make Diesel Great Again
Make Great Diesel Again
Damn, it actually works both ways.
It’s the electoral college. There’s no point in voting if you don’t live in a swing state. Republicans only won the popular vote 2 times since 1992 and it doesn’t mean much as far as US electoral politics is concerned. It’s literally just trivia to make libs feel better whenever they eat shit.
I’ve always thought a better way for US third parties to approach this is to form a regional party that caters to a particular state or region. They probably still wouldn’t win, but they could get to a point where they could outmuscle one of the parties. I think somewhere like Vermont could be a good place, a solid blue state that’s taken for granted as a solid blue state by the DNC.
Before Sanders joined Congress, he actually was in a good spot as mayor of Burlington. Sanders should’ve tried building a third party or more seriously help a preexisting third party that’s centered around Vermont. If done right, this party could’ve gone to the point where city counsel and mayors throughout Vermont are either members of that party or have to pay political tribute to that party. They probably won’t be anywhere close to electing a governor or earning an electoral vote, but the Republicans don’t exactly have a serious presence in Vermont either. They just need to have a larger state presence within Vermont than the Republicans.
Browsing through Wikipedia, apparently Vermont already has this party called the Vermont Progressive Party with a decent amount of positions with Vermont. And Sanders did help build the party, which makes me think he never should’ve gone to Congress to shill for Zionists and instead stayed in Vermont working tirelessly to continue building the party. The main issue is that it’s just a socdem party and electoralism in general can only take you so far.
I think it’s wiser for the various ML parties in the US to have a gentlemen’s agreement where they divide the US into various zones and focus their organizing on their assigned zones only. If nothing else, it will cut down on embarrassing sectarianism like when PSL and FRSO got into a fight over Palestinian organizing in Chicago(?).
I have none except that:
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This country is going to get worse and worse. Neither party offers any way out (because they are beholden to capital) and the unviability of a third party means people will constantly bounce between the two, blaming the current signs of decline om the incumbent party. Incumbent disadvantage will be a thing. In the end, Harris lost because she was a member of Biden’s administration and Biden himself only won because he wasn’t a member of Trump’s administration or a member of Trump’s party.
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The majority of people already recognize the sham election for what it is and opt out to not waste their time. Imagine wasting an entire workday standing in line with nothing to show for it in the end. And as the country further declines and third parties continue to be unviable, more people will check out. These people are fertile soil for radicalization. They are disillusioned with the status quo but don’t know exactly why and are just begging for somebody to show them the way forward.
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The people who still believe in the electoral process will be and ought to be treated like Jehovah’s Witnesses: a bunch of evangelizing and obnoxious freaks. Believing in the electoral process should be treated like believing in Santa Claus or the Tooth Fairy.
Hezbollah celebrates Trump’s win by launching celebratory rockets at a settlement in the Golan Heights called Trump Heights:
https://xcancel.com/MenchOsint/status/1854091963701604636
The Democrats and Republicans are just good cops and bad cops. They are the carrot and the stick. Trying to focus on one over the other is to fall for the kabuki theater.
