Gang, this isn’t complicated. You fight the Democratic establishment 364 days a year. On election day you pick the lesser evil, which hopefully all that fighting you did made much less evil. We have an archaic election system, and until that changes (work to change it), that’s the best path forward.
In other words, voting isn’t enough: it’s merely the first step. After “your guys” are in power, you should bully them into keeping their promises and doing more
Work to change it, how?
By illegally taking away capital from the people illegally fighting back against that change?
You’re not in a democracy, stop solving your problems democratically
By backing AOC and other progressives.
How is the United States not a democracy?
It’s a gradient. Did you get to decide who you’re allowed to vote for? Do they represent your actual interests? Do you have a say over what happens in your city or your workplace?
Stuff like that
(1)In a democracy the people elect a representative of their ideology to govern them in fair elections
(2)Both parties in the US in the 21st century start wars on foreign countries, lie about policies, submit to corrupt lobbying
(3)Both parties in the US are not representative of the people of the US
(4)The US is not a democracy
Which of these is wrong?
The electoral college.
Get called a trumper 364 days a year by people who love how much like trump the democratic establishment is constantly trying to become.
Good idea, commenters. Lets keep fighting each other about the perfect candidate for an election that already happened. Surely this will change the situation were in
You got your perfect candidate as soon as no one who opposed genocide was running.
The people mad at this post, unironically and without any self awareness, also get mad about “both sides ism” and complain that the left isn’t a unified front.
It’s so obvious the person who made this is on the left side of this picture.
Only a lib could give the girl on the right both an anarchy patch and a bernie 2020 hat.
It’s so obvious the person who made this is on the left side of this picture.
Anyone who says “blue no matter who” is on the left side of this picture. And on the right politically.
I’ve started saying “Vote blue no matter who” to dems that think progressives can’t win.
I’m a socialist and I support the Democratic party
Why? They hate you.
I care about my constituents, even though they’re filthy unhoused vape addicted lazy Bernie bros. Fist bump!
at GITMO they refuse to show this pic to inmates because it’s considered torture.
Good job OP, you earned your label.
I hate this so much
More dem slop, they still don’t understand why they can’t win elections. I’d point it out for them, but they’d just scream ‘blue no matter who’ instead of listening.
Aha! You clearly love Trump!
Fascists are not scared of being voted out lmao.
With patience, you when. If your stance is unchanging, and you just chip away, taking every little bit of power as you can, constantly angling for a best strategic position, you will win.
Fascist will always have a chance, they’re not scared of being out voted. They’re scared of the working class digging their asses out of their heads and realizing what’s up.
That being said, absolutely still vote.
This is a shit meme in many ways?
nope. when blue also supports genocide, blue is clearly part of the problem.
Ok who you gonna vote for?
Will you still vote?
yep. for the person who fits my goals. never red. blue when they don’t support genocide.
If the candidate is a progressive, will you?
im upset
It benefits the security state for a Dem to take the helm and lull the masses back to sleep with sweet words while continuing 99% of Trump’s policies
I’mma vote for the lesser of two evils. What I won’t do is fist bump a republican liteᵗᵐ like they didn’t torpedo every fucking progressive they could. I remember south carolina, biden was dead in the water and suddenly “centrists consolidated” and he was a fucking front runner.
If you keep doing something over and over, for decades, and still everything gets worse, then that something isn’t working. Feels like something that doesn’t need saying, but apparently it does.
Unless the candidate is a progressive, then the establishment Dems won’t endorse them (unless the progressive wins, then suddenly they totally supported the progressive all along)
(no, I’m not saying don’t vote, just frustrated by the fucking hypocrisy)
*cough*
Mamdani
*cough*
Platner
*coughcough*
those were two of the big ones I had in mind, yeah
Don’t just vote Democrat, vote in the primaries.
Are we acting again like the DNC cares about people voting in primaries?
Yup, drag the fuckin party left.
vote in the primaries.
When the party runs primaries at all, they interfere with them every chance they get. Saying “jUsT vOtE iN tHe PrImArIeS” without acknowledging this paints the results of the party’s corruption as the will of the people.
Ya that’s a problem I have in my neck of the words. Everyone complains about who is on the General Election ticket and they just shrug their shoulders about voting in the Primary.
“You mean I have to vote, and then vote again? Ugh, I wasnt even planning to show up to the actual vote. Meh…it’ll all work out fine.”
If voting day was a holiday it would less of a problem
If voting day was a holiday, only people who get federal holidays off would get the day off. But it would be a great excuse to get rid of early voting.
I have worked for companies that would rather pay out unemployment due to wrongful termination than give time off for voting.
If they don’t want you voting isn’t that a clue?
That’s not going to un-fire them.
Or it won’t and I’ll complain online which is even better than voting, right?
Exactly. This times a million. We don’t vote in primaries and then get all surprised that the Democratic candidates resemble the folks who voted in the primaries.
Imo if you don’t vote in the primaries, you’ve forfeited your right to bitch about the candidates on the general ticket
That would be a nice idea, but what do you do when incumbents run unopposed in the primary
I figured that bit was obvious, I was speaking more towards the Dem leadership’s hypocrisy. Again, absolutely not saying “don’t vote both sides reeeeee”
I was complementing, not contradicting 🙂. I agree.
Yeah didn’t the Democratic Party take credit for some shit Mamdani got done? Seemed pretty shitty since they tried to stop him from getting elected.
Make sure you’re pressuring the establishment Democrats in your jurisdiction and the people making campaign contributions.
