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Too fucking late, maybe if no-path-to-win Warren didn’t stay in the primary race in 2020 we would of had sanders. But the democrats can’t run a primary without ratfucking it in favor of their corporate donors.
This kinda talk is the right kind, but at the wrong time.
We are well past the "You can vote fascism away" stage
Voting alone won't do it. But please remember, Pinochet was voted out.
We need to support local organization and action, because without that, the vote is powerless under a fascist regime. But the vote, combined with strong popular institutions, remains powerful in all but the most withered of fascist states.
I hate to say this, but it's too fucking late for any sort of electoral solution, at least on a national level. At this point we need to develop local capacity to secure our progressive enclaves in liberal states and big metropolitan areas. This means rooting out the conservative factions within our police and firing bad actors, as well as training community-based self-defense forces. We also need to build more effective local resilience and mutual aid networks so that the Federal government can't dangle emergency aid over us when pandemics and climate-related disasters recur, as they frequently will. We need politicians who will defend our territory, boundaries and values, and fight to discontinue the tremendous subsidy we pay to MAGA territories. We need more self-sufficient economies that trade primarily with healthy, rights-respecting economies in Canada and Europe. It's a heavy lift and unfortunately I don't see anyone up to the task right now, as even Bernie, Warren, and AOC are stubborn institutionalists who will continue trying to work within the system even as it works against them and their constituents.
Bro, that state governments at local levels are as left leaning as they’ve ever been, yes they can be pushed more, but this theory of every Democrat being a corrupt neocon is laughable.
People who have built their entire career around attacking working and rigging the economy are not going to reverse their entire lives.
How many Dems voted against the Child Tax Credit Extension this?
How many Dems voted against protecting Union Pensions in the last 4 years?
Which candidate this year ran on funding for first time home buyers?
Nonsense!
They could have been doing this the whole time lol.
They are still tied to the DNC Party Line, so that's why they haven't. This is also why the DNC cannot and will never be a Worker Party, it's organized like a business that sells policy to wealthy Capitalists.
Then we never would have heard of them.
We might have heard how they're radicals, etc., before they disappeared.
Starting 40 years ago. They've been tripping over themselves to throat the Corporate dick for decades.
I just don't get why we're not training and endorsing out the next group with all this press. Sanders and Warren need to back and/or start a coalition of progressive up-and-coming leaders that they can help hone and introduce to the larger political landscape while they have the energy and influence. They need to stop being the only torch bearers and start bringing in underlings. Idc if they follow them around like a posse, might actually be better if they did. I would cuddle with Sanders all night if I could, I'm just tired of his name being the only one catching attention. The will try to bury any movement with him when his time comes, best to get ahead of it so momentum can keep going.
Social Democrats will always cater to Liberals, because they both rest on the foundations of Capitalism. Social Democrats aren't trying to disrupt the system, but prod it towards more safety nets. Even if they raised successors, they would face the same struggles, because the DNC can't support itself without the blessing and support of the Bourgeoisie as their donors.
A truly destabilizing movement comes from outside the boundaries of the normal electoral system and depends on real, actual Worker Organization. That's why it's helpful to read theory. I wrote an introductory reading list for Marxism if that appeals to you or anyone else.