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'Very troubling': Leader of 'Abandon Harris' movement now anxious about Trump appointees
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This is such a dumb take. You can't say "thirty years of harm reduction brought us here" with the implication that if Republicans won every election in the time frame things would somehow be better, unless you're actually just a right wing voter.
I'll say it for the thousandth time: voting in national elections in no way affects your ability to do other activism. If your argument is along the lines of "voting for the worst option will unite the resistance and we'll make real change", well, I hope you realize that that "real change" is bloody revolution with an uncertain result.
Harm reduction and neoliberalism just wont work, end of discussion. Its fucking 2024, if you want to beat republicans you need to elect progressives
For years I've seen leftists complaining about 'harm reduction' and 'lesser evil' and how the dems are ignoring their vote. But all we ever do is bicker with ourselves. We don't have a united front. We don't have any reliable voting bloc.
They literally don't care about us because there is nothing to care about. If Dems court one leftist group they risk alienating another because of our unnecessary purity tests and virtue signaling. It's so much easier and more reliable to get votes if you tack to the center so that's what they do.
Meanwhile we don't do any meaningful activism or organizing. We don't vote practically and only get excited about voting when we have an exciting candidate. Leftists seem to expect their vote to have power but it doesn't have any. And it's entirely our own fault because you have to actually do the work to get the power.
What work is this? Writing your representatives? Voting in primaries? Voting every year there's an election no matter how local? Knocking on doors and phone banking? Donating to campaigns?
And if that's not the work, please tell me what the work actually is because I've done all those things and have no power to show for it.
Mad respect to you for the effort you put into it - all those things matter. Problem is we don’t do it as a community. Most leftists think their vote is the be-all end-all if they even vote at all, so of course not enough of us are doing what you’re doing.
Beyond that, getting involved locally and/or running for office would be powerful too. Grassroots movements have been shown to work and we don’t have anything remotely like it.
Well said.