Nobody said voting was pointless, it’s the bare minimum. Labor organizing provided an outside influence to party politics, the party politics weren’t the vehicle for change there. Democrat delegates and members don’t want Bernie or class policies, because they aren’t a left party, they’re a neoliberal capitalist institution supported by and for capital interests. Their branding is what you’re talking about when the “vehicle for change” stuff comes out, if they stood by broadly supported left-rooted measures they would say as much, but they don’t because it would lose them material support. For political involvement I have had close friends run for office as socialists, and campaigned with them in two elections. I’m also involved in my labor union doing unglamorous work and hopefully as a delegate one day.
Nobody said voting was pointless, it’s the bare minimum. Labor organizing provided an outside influence to party politics, the party politics weren’t the vehicle for change there. Democrat delegates and members don’t want Bernie or class policies, because they aren’t a left party, they’re a neoliberal capitalist institution supported by and for capital interests. Their branding is what you’re talking about when the “vehicle for change” stuff comes out, if they stood by broadly supported left-rooted measures they would say as much, but they don’t because it would lose them material support. For political involvement I have had close friends run for office as socialists, and campaigned with them in two elections. I’m also involved in my labor union doing unglamorous work and hopefully as a delegate one day.