• Ænima@lemm.ee
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    11 months ago

    Not sure why you’re getting down voted so much. We have no truly leftist or left of center parties in this country. We have fascism-lite and status quo right.

    When Nixon won he won by a super large percentage. Almost all the states were red. Look at the electoral map for Nixon’s win, if you can find it, it’s shocking. You know why it looked like that? The DNC ran a progressive candidate. And they’ve not done that again since.

    Not saying Dems aren’t better, by far they are, but they aren’t progressive and we can’t expect them to enact progressive changes.

    Just gotta keep voting for the lesser of the evils until these dinosaurs either retire from, or die in, office. It’s sad, it’s frustrating, but it is all we can do for now. Keep voting for the party not actively rooting for a dictatorship and we might make it through this.

    • archomrade [he/him]@midwest.social
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      11 months ago

      My mantra is, “change happens everywhere but the general”

      General elections need to be reformed before a real progressive candidate has a chance at election, and even then, a progressive president has little chance of enacting real reform once in office.

      Those reforms happen and the local, state, and Congress level, and even more often they happen at the union and labor level.

      People are bickering over our binary choice for president, but the real focus should be on the lower offices. When you’re shooting to kill, you dont aim for the head and fire once , you aim for center-mass and steady yourself for repeat shots. Or I guess you get real close and use a sawed-off.