I totally feel you on that. You’re right. The democrats are despicable for playing with their voters like that. They’ve pretty much always done that to lesser extents. It’s what the stalemate forces them to do. That doesnt make it right, but so long as they cant change the rules, its a constant they will work under.
Starving them of power would be the right choice if there was a viable alternative. But in this case the alternative will eventually starve progressives of power to simply exist. Your only options lie outside of politics and are often just straight up illegal, but you dont have a Trump to bail you out if you start a revolution, nor enough people willing to support it on the progressive side for obvious reasons.
At the end of the day, you do you, but doing nothing if the status quo is hostile to you is a losing strategy. Frustrating sacrifices are neccesary in the US political system, pretty much by design.
We fundamentally disagree on what “doing nothing” means. Voting for democrats so they don’t have to change to stay relevant seems like doing nothing to me. Letting the democrats fail seems like doing nothing to you. But think of this. I am but one and my thoughts on the matter are not unique. Unless democrats are forced to change in some way, they will never have a unified front, and they will doom us all.
I disagree. Doing nothing to me is letting progressives be surpessed and die so they can never organize and proliferate their ideas. Even in better political systems people sometimes have to vote strategically to ensure that.
I sincerely hope you are doing something more than just handing victory to republicans and hoping the dems find you important enough. The republicans will make sure you can never reorganize or even exist if you let them. Rather than it just being very hard under dems.
I totally feel you on that. You’re right. The democrats are despicable for playing with their voters like that. They’ve pretty much always done that to lesser extents. It’s what the stalemate forces them to do. That doesnt make it right, but so long as they cant change the rules, its a constant they will work under.
Starving them of power would be the right choice if there was a viable alternative. But in this case the alternative will eventually starve progressives of power to simply exist. Your only options lie outside of politics and are often just straight up illegal, but you dont have a Trump to bail you out if you start a revolution, nor enough people willing to support it on the progressive side for obvious reasons.
At the end of the day, you do you, but doing nothing if the status quo is hostile to you is a losing strategy. Frustrating sacrifices are neccesary in the US political system, pretty much by design.
We fundamentally disagree on what “doing nothing” means. Voting for democrats so they don’t have to change to stay relevant seems like doing nothing to me. Letting the democrats fail seems like doing nothing to you. But think of this. I am but one and my thoughts on the matter are not unique. Unless democrats are forced to change in some way, they will never have a unified front, and they will doom us all.
I disagree. Doing nothing to me is letting progressives be surpessed and die so they can never organize and proliferate their ideas. Even in better political systems people sometimes have to vote strategically to ensure that.
I sincerely hope you are doing something more than just handing victory to republicans and hoping the dems find you important enough. The republicans will make sure you can never reorganize or even exist if you let them. Rather than it just being very hard under dems.