• InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world
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    20 days ago

    You say “not voting” has cost us the rights of women lgbtq minorities and other people, I say pushing a strategy of harm reduction for the Electoral it for the past 20 years is the reason that those rights were lost.

    I addressed this:

    Did you read where I wrote this:

    Its not blue no matter who. Its blue when harm reduction is one of the limited choices and working to expand the progressive wing where possible.

    Can’t move past harm reduction if you are not growing the progressive wing where possible. Either in the dem party or spinning of a serious 3rd party. Libertarian, as gross as they are, have made their ideas main stream in the Rs. Again tankies discouraging voting is abandoning a key front in the [class] war and rolling over for fascists.

    Can’t grow a progressive Wing if it’s constantly stopped out by the DNC. 🙄 And you never will grow it because you don’t show up to grow it.

    It’s idiotic how you think electoralism is a major front in the class war.

    And i think its idiotic you are abandoning people you could be helping.

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      Yeah you didn’t actually address my point that the DNC squashes Progressive politics so that there isn’t a progressive wing and there will not be one in the DNC. It’s fun to pretend though but you did actually address this concern though.

      It’s not my fault that you lack creativity and are unable to imagine a way of helping people that doesn’t involve electoralism and think that’s abandoning people 🙄

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        Yeah you didn’t actually address my point that the DNC squashes Progressive politics so that there isn’t a progressive wing and there will not be one in the DNC. It’s fun to pretend though but you did actually address this concern though.

        Because you don’t vote. And we won’t have a third party win local elections because tankies discourage taking action to win those elections.

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          Ooo. Finally we got a reason.

          Explain how me not voting, which you have no idea if I did or not, fails to push Progressive politics in the dnc?

          I also didn’t say that you shouldn’t vote only that you shouldn’t waste your time with electoralism. Meaning that people should vote for who they want regardless of the screeching the liberals do. And that they shouldn’t waste their time doing anything with those parties since local organizations are far more important than political parties.

          Here in fact I got a great Counterpoint to this idiotic line of thinking. In 2020 we had the largest voting turnout we have ever had And end it up With one of the most institutional governments the Democrats have ever given us. How come that didn’t result into the progressive Wing that you keep talking about? We also have record-setting votes during the midterms 2022. I wonder what happened to those progressives. It’s not like we have a foreign lobbyist organization that does its best to ensure that progressives can’t get anywhere. It’s also not like the powers that be in the DNC do their absolute best to ensure that progressives can’t get anywhere.