Most of the Democrats are bought off by the same people as the Republicans. All this political theatre is just a show for the illusion of choice. Hopefully more people who can't be bought off get elected, but I doubt it.
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Hopefully more people will realize that bourgeois democracy is working as intended, and that it cannot be reformed; it must be replaced.
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They sure shut the fuck up about " blue no matter who" real fast.
Democrat leadership would choose Trump over Zohran.
They're lining back up behind Eric Adams, which is functionally the same thing.
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100% when the Democrats have full control it's all 'golly gee willikers' but the second the Republicans have full control it's like 'everyone loves steak now. EAT IT'
It is an actual concept??!?!
I have been calling it the ratchet effect for years (because it is a ratchet).
Just happy to see someone else calling it that.
Damn, if you posted this six months ago, people would have tried to ban you for it.
Oh yeah, I've posted it before now and it makes some people really angry. It seems to be a very common idea that third party voters are somehow worse than Trump voters, as though the Democratic Party somehow have a right to all non-fascist votes.
Well, I'm glad Mamdani won in NYC and zionist liberals can finally put to rest the need to vote straight ticket Democrat.
Yep, I keep this picture to share anytime people want to talk about how Democrats are the good guys.
Dinosaurs voting for a meteor
The fact that liberals refuse to read just 100 pages of State and Revolution while insisting that they are having new ideas or that the political environment has somehow changed is by far the most frustrating thing about Lemmy comment sections. I'm an anarchist, someone smeared by Lenin in that book but at least I read it and understand. My disagreement is with the vision and form of the dictatorship of the proletariat and how we can build a new commune, not the need for revolution or insisting that somehow, some way after 175 years of the same discussion voting for reform will work.
I swear Americans have never read a book that wasn't Harry Potter in their lives.
I swear Americans have never read a book that wasn’t Harry Potter in their lives.
Nonsense. Some of them have read The Bible.
Many current elected officials also are huge fans of Austrian autobiographies
Nonsense. Some of them have read The Bible.
fewer than the ones who said they have.
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I'm curious to hear the objections and alteratives. I'm not fully versed in anarchist thought.
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That's not true, they've also read 1984 and thought all "adult" books are gonna be this fucking dreadful and boring so they don't read anymore, they just pretend ~~idiocracy was a documentary~~ 1984 is like, so true, man
That’s not true, they’ve also read [the wikipedia article about the plot of] 1984 [while furiously arguing about things on the internet they don't understand]
ftfy lol
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Ah yes the Corbyn technique.
They tried the Corbyn technique in the primaries. It didn’t stick, and that’s why they’re freaking out right now.
I pray for his victory. The establishment centrists and their Zionist allies replaced Corbyn with a neoliberal empty suit. It has been a catastrophe for the left and killed any hope of radical change.
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Dumbasses
The Democrats are afraid Democratic Socialism as it is the anti MAGA—and they should be, the sellouts.
To be clear, all socialism is democratic. "Democratic Socialism" is just for reformist socialism, and I'd argue Mamdani is just to give New Yorkers a taste of what a better world could look like. You can't actually change capitalism by working within it, though, revolution remains necessary. Mamdani could prove beneficial in normalizing socialism.
To be precise, revolution is necessary because capitalists will fucking kill you if you get elected and try to do land reforms.
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Is anyone understanding yet that the status quo is that elected officials report to a group of influential people who have selected them because they can be controlled and that is all?
It's true that the people with the power would rather their controllable opponent win an election than a candidate in their own party who has ideas of their own.
Until that can be remedied, democracy is truly afflicted by ophiocordyceps unilateralis.
Your vote means NOTHING
Your voice means NOTHING
CARRY ON AS DIRECTED
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Which is why we need a Democrat socialist party. Unfortunately, voters are incapable of voting for anything other than red or blue.
It's not the voters fault. If you split the Democratic vote, you will only get a permanent Republican government. And that doesn't help anyone.
Politicians like Mamdani are the only way forward. We need more people like him to run for local government like this, and move their way up from there...making way for more like them to take their places, as they go. You can't change things at the top, without laying the foundation for that change, first.
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The Party for Socialism and Liberation already exists, though all socialism is democratic, it just stands for reformist socialism. PSL is revolutionary, but also runs candidates.
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