Evergreen
Evergreen
Cross-posted from "Evergreen" by @InevitableSwing@hexbear.net in !slop@hexbear.net
Evergreen
Cross-posted from "Evergreen" by @InevitableSwing@hexbear.net in !slop@hexbear.net
I assure you if Bernie was nominated to run for President tomorrow, a flood of, "What has he done to earn my vote?" posts would start.
Bernie Sanders is the single most popular politician in the USA due to bipartisan support, even if he hasn't been the most popular primary candidate to democrats.
I bet the voices of dissent would be Tankie and Anarchist accelerationists who see him making things better as dodging a violent revolution.
Anarchism = \ = barberianism
Anarchism = \ = violence
Pacifist-anarchism is what i personally subscribe to.
Absolute do vote, and i am a huge fan of Sanders but also know that voting will not improve things, it will just slow down things getting worse. More time to fix things.
Slow collapse will still continue till we fully transition to a permanent sustainable society. Transition will or will not happen regardless of any single nations temporary elected officials.
The game we are playing is much bigger then a few suits performing geopolitics. Emergent complexity hits you like the great filter
They will ask you to waste your vote on 3rd party because genocide and will be surprised the even more genocidal guy wins again because of it.
Can we go one day without you saying something stupid?
Just for awareness, 30/50 states have partisan primaries. That means you must be registered as a Democrat to vote in the Democratic primary. It was a contributing factor in Bernie’s 2016 primary loss, and will be the only effective way to replace the corporate centrists with progressives in the 2026 midterms.
Check your state’s primary type here: https://ballotpedia.org/Primary_election_types_by_state
For how much emphasis liberals put in elections, they're terrible at winning them
On purpose. They want to think people elections are important and all people should be doing, but manipulate the system in a way that nobody inspiring or capable is ever able to be the candidate. Therefore people get disillusioned and burnt out out of constant useless votes and just do nothing.
Many Americans who publicly discuss politics online will not discuss exit poll results.
If the USA states were individual countries most would flunk the United Nations guidelines. Yet, other than discussing some of the more minor violations, most will ignore the topic.
It’s a giant echo chamber shared across the political spectrum in the states, and it definitely drives out many voices who would otherwise talk about it. There is no champion to rally around for electoral reform. So the politicians in states that have proper ballot counting will not criticize the states that flunk the guidelines.
What I am taking about took decades to get to this way, and will take decades to undo perhaps
You can’t say voting is useless if people aren’t voting. 90M eligible voters abstained in 2024. Trump won with 77M votes. That means there were 13M more people that did absolutely nothing than the winning majority.
We also only see ~20% turnout in congressional Democratic primaries, yet people call for term limits. Rather than asking the system to passively replace Congress, maybe we should actually participate in the elections that allow active replacement of our electors.
Condoning or defending apathy is no different than voting for your opponent.
and all that to end up with Trump!
they don't "just do nothing", they vote for an ignorant greedy asshole who will break the status quo.
I despise Trump but i don't remember, in i don't know how many countries, another politician who actually did what they promised. (except that "groceries" promise 😅
More money in running, losing and being the controlled opposition, it gives them the excuse for why nothing good happens.
"we are ready to vote!!" They screamed, 2 years before midterms, after JUST failing to show up for special elections in Florida.
And when the time comes to stand up, stand together, and vote the orange turd out of office, you will still have 50mil eligible voters who never even registered.
America doesn't care about democracy, as seen by all the times they've used democracy as an excuse to rob another country of resources and left them with no functioning democracy.
Excuse me, but when we do fascism in other countries, that's called Democracy. Now give us your resources.
Yea, not to mention 10 mil who didn't show up 5 months ago.
Wake me up when they're ready to learn how to make a molotov cocktail
"But we need to vote on if we wanna first, and then meet republicans half-way and only make a mocktail that is means tested."
They're signing the pact with Ribbentrop
Day late and a pound light. Dems are done, it's time for progressives .
Shame we weren't ready back in November.
About five months too late, you corporate fucking jizztraps.
I'm pretty sure he's joking about liberals, and isn't one himself
They were complacent, though. Millions of blue forgot to vote for Harris in 2024, we also lost both chambers of congress.
They didn’t forget. They protested at the polls. It was impossible to exist in the US without being reminded of the election.