• HappyFrogEnglish
        3·
        11 个月前

        There aren’t any right now, but sign up to PV so you can get notified to do real change.

        • dontgooglefinderscult@lemmings.worldBannedEnglish
          5·
          11 个月前

          Ew I’m not a progressive; and what part of the 2020 primaries did you sleep through?

          The Dems will literally cancel primaries in order to get the corporate choice in office.

    • Wes4Humanity@lemm.eeEnglish
      8·
      11 个月前

      Tried this with Bernie… The DNC rigged the primary… first goal needs to be to take over the Dem party. Which would actually be pretty easy since like 5 people show up to those elections, but only insiders really ever know about them.

      If you’re curious, every state, and many towns/counties have their own Democrat party… Find yours, figure out who the shills are and get like 10 people to vote for you to replace them during their next elections. The DNC leadership is elected by the state Dems, so once you’ve taken over your state you can start taking over the DNC.

      • ShadyGrove@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        11 个月前

        Local and state primaries are a thing, and local politics probably affect you more anyway. It’s better to start a movement from the bottom up rather than top down.

  • Sasha [They/Them]English
    42·
    11 个月前

    Innuendo Studios has a good video on this in their alt right playbook series. Republicans will gladly appeal to the far right, Democrats want to distance themselves from the left as much as possible and are instead focused on also appealing to the right…

    Ultimately, while a lot of the parties policies are different on the surface, Democrats still win when Republicans are in power because they’re part of the same class, hoarding wealth works for both sides. Democrats seemingly only exist to make the system vageuly stomachable (is that even a word?) to the rest of America.

  • wildbus8979@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    31·
    11 个月前

    Ohai!

    I’m glad someone improved it though, I was on my phone when I did it and couldn’t get the finger to overlap the sign!

  • imPastaSyndrome@lemm.eeEnglish
    26·
    11 个月前

    So what you’re saying is that we only need to push down on the Democrats lever and we’ll fly to the left

  • Yozul@beehaw.orgEnglish
    22·
    11 个月前

    You realize this is an argument in favor of voting for Democrats, right? Real progress doesn’t happen in a single day in November, but that day in November can stop things from getting worse while real progress happens elsewhere.

      • Yozul@beehaw.orgEnglish
        9·
        11 个月前

        Either we’re doomed and voting for the Democrats does no harm, or it’s possible to pull ourselves out of this spiral and voting for the Democrats could buy us the time we need to do it. I can’t see the future, I don’t truly know which of us is right, and even if I’m right and it is possible that doesn’t necessarily mean we will succeed, but as long as there is even the tiniest shred of uncertainty then it is worth giving ourselves every possible chance. The most powerful military in the world falling fully to fascism will go global, and it will end with a death toll unlike anything the world has ever seen. I’d rather not let that happen, if I have a choice. I may not. It may be too late, but even if I wanted to run, where would I be safe from the US? There is no such place.

          • Yozul@beehaw.orgEnglish
            6·
            11 个月前

            Please don’t put words in my mouth. I don’t believe the US is invincible or will beat the whole rest of the world or anything like that. In the end fascists always fail, because they’re not actually good at running countries.

            Be real though. Just because the US isn’t invincible doesn’t mean the US military can’t choose to eradicate any one location on Earth and no one can stop them. All that air and naval power means nowhere is safe from a strike. And that’s before we start talking about giving a fully fascist government access to a cartoonishly oversized nuclear arsenal. When things go badly enough for them, there is a very real chance they hit the F you button and take everyone else down with them.

            Also, let’s be real again, not everyone is going to be on the other side. The US has a lot of allies, and it’s not the only place where fascism is on the rise. The capacity for destruction is like nothing the world has ever seen, and I especially wouldn’t want to be in a place like Mexico, given the proximity and all the fascist propaganda about Mexicans.

      • TheFriar@lemm.eeEnglish
        7·
        11 个月前

        Classic case of open minded, forward thinking from the mods here. Can’t take an open discussion about how to do what we all want if it even calls into question current methods. Where does that fall on some sort of political compass thing? Left-> authoritarian?

        Before my comment got deleted, the response was “I’m not here to tell you how to accomplish anything.”

        …why not? Do we not all want the same thing? If we do, discussing our tactics and a showing a little fuckin solidarity across borders are…kinda important dontcha think? But that does go to prove my original point, that this post isn’t about how to do what we all want, how to solve problems we all see. It’s about patting yourself on the back. We all need to be a little better.

          • araneae@beehaw.orgEnglish
            7·
            11 个月前

            You really come off as a massive fucking twat to all of us who are trapped in the US and have no where to go. Like we enjoy fascism. And voting to save ourselves is just a stupid waste of time. So we should just rot in place and accept it instead of casting a smelly vote for a democrat. Whats four more years of stability if my life doesn’t match your academic philosophy? Actually fuck you. Enjoy being Not American so you can crudely point and laugh. You’re a myopic piece of shit.

            As if Trump would be good for Mexico either. Jesus Christ.

  • Keeponstalin@lemmy.worldEnglish
    21·
    11 个月前

    Voting Harris is the right thing to do from a lesser evil standpoint. I think everyone should, but I understand those who won’t from an anti-genocide standpoint and won’t blame them for it, unless they vote Trump, that’s unacceptable. You might as well write in Bernie if you’re thinking Green, they got the same chance of winning. Ultimately, it’s on Harris and her campaign strategy for failing to part from Biden on Israel. They are taking that risk, which I think is very dumb and dangerous considering the sentiment of voters, it’s on them whether it pans out or not.

    What’s far more important is for everyone to vote down ballot. Find out which options support progressive policies and vote for them.

  • snooggums@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    11 个月前

    The primary way that the Dems keep it from going left is by keeping the stupid filibuster around, hamstringing the ability for them to pass legislation when they hold the senste, house, and oval office. They can achieve the same goal by holding only one of the three and it isn’t like the Republicans respected the completely voluntary filibuster when it was time for them to stack the courts.

  • elrik@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    11 个月前

    How exactly do Democrats block movement back to the left? What does it even mean to move “back” to the left when the goals of the left are things we literally have never had before?

    • Tinidril@midwest.socialEnglish
      2·
      11 个月前

      It amazes me that so many people are oblivious to how far things have moved towards the right and towards authoritarianism over the past 50 years. Sure, we’ve inched forwards on a handful of social issues, but corporate power, the prison system, the military industrial complex, privacy rights, and the social safety net are all in much worse shape today than 50 years ago. “The era of big government is over” came from Bill Clinton, not Reagan or Bush. Income inequality has soared thanks to both Republican and Democratic policy. Republicans have been worse by a long shot, but they both have moved us in the same direction.