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Yeah, but also the outfit. =D
The issue is that unless we get rid of our first-past-the-post voting system and then enact further systemic change we are going to be stuck with the Republicans and Democrats.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7tWHJfhiyo
Thankfully as Trump demonstrated, a political party can be hijacked to be whatever you want. But we need to do that to the Democratic Party, like Bernie tried to do. This will involve educating people out of their neoliberal positions and ideas but it can be done.
No more “lesser evil” crap. I’m not voting for evil again, period.
The strategy you are describing makes minorities the cost of doing business. Instead of attempting to achieve moral victory over Democrats consider voting for Democrats in elections to leverage power for the people Republicans want to hurt and kill.
I’m really surprised of the responses to this comment, I find this to be a common sense
The closer a person and the people they care about get to the chopping block the less common sense it seems.
No, the far-right exists because of late-stage capitalism and over 40 years of neoliberalism pushed by both mainstream parties since Reagan. The Democrats lost in large part because of their refusal to adopt a populist narrative. They didn't go left enough. But refusing to vote for them or espousing accelerationist rhetoric because of that is self-defeating, harms minorities, and opens to the door to devastating climate change scenarios. edit: typo
No, it's a problem for the people empowering the right by refusing to vote for the leaning right of center, neoliberal Democrats. People are attempting to get a moral victory over the Democrats by refusing to vote for them. This strategy makes minorities the cost of doing business.
Trump tried once and it worked. Neoliberal ideas are entrenched in the minds of Americans. Neoliberalism only allows change to the people in charge of systems as it asserts, incorrectly, that our institutions are flawless. Since neoliberals only consider changing people, it is much easier for a fascist to convince a neoliberal to change the people in society. Where as it is much harder for a progressive or a socialist to convince a neoliberal to enact systemic change or redistribute wealth respectively.
In short, people with neoliberal ideas in their head need to fully internalize neoliberalism as a scam.
Abandoning the Democrats will not result in them being replaced. They will continue to exist by moving further to the right, as Democrats like Chris Murphy have already proposed.
Starting a successful third party is mathematically impossible under a FPTP system. Third party candidates can only be spoiler candidates.
There already are two. We must co-opt one with a populist candidate. The Republican Party was already hijacked by Trump. That leaves the Democratic Party.
Unfortunately our democracy uses a first-past-the-post voting system which trends toward a two-party system. This makes the Republicans and Democrats the only game in town.
Minority Rule: First Past the Post Voting
We need to leverage power to reduce the harm done to the minority groups fascists in the Republican party want to hurt. So rather than attempting to achieve a moral victory over Democrats, people on the left should do the most useful thing they can during elections for minorities and vote for Democrats.
The problem with that strategy is that our democracy uses a first-past-the-post voting system which trends towards a two-party system.
States can not secede from the Union. That was Lincoln's rational for reforming the Union. Since states didn't have the right to leave, they had never left to begin with.
https://www.nps.gov/liho/learn/historyculture/secessiontableofcontents.htm
And before anyone brings it up, Texas cannot secede.
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There is likely to be domestic terrorism following this election no matter who wins. Organizing is more powerful than any gun. Get to know the people around you. Having people you can call in an emergency is essential. If you're going to the polls, go with friends. edit: typo
Also, Vote Blue!
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I dumped a whole bunch of comments yesterday and today. I'm not sure if that's what you're after though. They get very heated and political.
When I think lore, I think about how the Zelda timeline is split into three linear timelines because of Ocarina of Time but then merges in Breath of the Wild. Or how Metroid has a linear timeline and like Zelda, many of the games are completely out of order with their release dates.
Like after the events of Metroid all the Space Pirates split into two groups. Kraid takes half of the Space Pirates to form a new home world which is the lore excuse for why he's not in the Metroid Prime games, but Ridley is. And Ridley and Kraid can both talk despite being giant monsters, but choose not to. Samus has nothing to say to them because Ridley killed her parents.
And they want to gank her and steal stuff so there's no real point in talking about their evil plan.