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[โ€“] Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 20 points 1 week ago (24 children)

The following can all be true:

  • The Democrats are a right wing neoliberal party.
  • The Democrats are the most left-wing option that is realistically available to American voters.
  • The Democrats can be pushed further left if American progressives work to do so.
  • The Democrats - at the party level - will resist such a change, but that resistance can still be overcome.
  • In the long term, massive structural overhauls and the downfall of capitalism are the only things that will save America and the world
  • In the near term, voting consistly and enthusiastically for the least bad option can still protect vulnerable groups from harm and create changes that lay the groundwork for those structural overhauls.
[โ€“] haui@lemmygrad.ml 17 points 1 week ago

While those are technically true, they are inconseuqential at best, plain wrong at worst.

Yes, the dems could be pushed left a little over a long time in theory. But practice has shown that this is not achievable since all other material circumstances are against it.

The "least bad" option is a communist party, absolutely not the dems.

Voting is not going to help half as many people than going to the next soup kitchen or neighborhood meetup and organize there.

I hate these soc dem apology posts. Biden has blood on his hands up to his shoulders.

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