• snooggums@midwest.social
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    6 months ago

    But once trump is defeated we’ll all dogpile on.

    So one of the other things that is very frustrating is always being told that we just need to wait until after the next election to criticize anything. Our election cycles never seem to end.

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      6 months ago

      You absolutely should not be waiting until the next election cycle. You should be voicing your opinion, voting in off-cycle and local elections, and voting for the least harmful option in every election, including the presidential election. It’s a huge machine and voting once every 4 years for the pre-packaged candidate isn’t an effective strategy if you actually want things to change.

      Vote for people that make things better in your community, city, county, state, and then think about federal elections. Displacing the trove of do-nothings or detrimental actors in the smaller elections will change sentiment in the parties and will change the candidates they put through in the primaries… but it will take years for that to happen.

      Either that or revolution… but that’s going to be a whole lot worse for everyone for a few decades, best case scenario.

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        6 months ago

        That’s the problem. Most of the far left idealists don’t give a shit between elections. This happens every cycle. And every cycle they never learn.

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      That’s kind of how ‘self rule’ works. You’re supposed to pay attention to politics.

      People not voting is how we got in this mess in the first place.

      Why do you think the GOP’s final defense is always “both sides do it?”

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      6 months ago

      You and me both. Reddit literally browser finger printed my device and banned me in 2023 because I wouldn’t stop raising the flag on Biden. Now here we are and I want to do the whole told you so shit but I know more is at stake here than any other election I’ve lived through.