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Read this you fucks
I cannot stress enough how very much OK it is to be wrong, and to admit it. It is of no value to you intellectually or psychically to refuse new information or to be unwilling to defer. That momentary ache of pride is meaningless when compared to the joy of learning something new.
The left at large refuses to seriously engage with harm reduction. They would rather have fake principles that absolve them of their duty to take action.
I'm in dsa and used to be in the green party. I'm asking people to do the minimal amount of work possible in real life... Which is to go vote... And I'm facing backlash for it. I see y'all and don't see results in most methods that aren't harm reduction and mutual aid.
Well if I remember correctly, he didn't get the votes in the primaries... Even though he was far more popular in every poll. It's almost like people didn't show up to vote for him.
I wish I was a spunky pup.
Plus it's not like the Republicans care and aren't just doing what their donors want... The tea party still took them down... and we don't have 3rd parties by constitutional scheme. So primaries are where we gotta focus.
WE ARE THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY. WE have to make them care. They don't just decide to care one day. That happens when we vote out their incumbents bc it cannot be a stat fluke. Incumbents win 80% of the time in Congress and 90% in Senate mainly based on name recognition. They're weakest in primaries.
Does your lived experience include broad participation in the electoral system?
Probably not.
Because it hasn't been done. People buy into the myth that voting can't change anything so they don't try (15% turnouts) and it feeds the cycle. It worked for the bastards in the tea party. Just saying.
I can do two things at once and I am pissed, but they wouldn't be in power if people voted in the primaries.
The tea party showed us it was possible to oust incumbents in primaries if people showed up to vote. Fuck all of them and their ideas, but they did get their way with that tactic.
"At the time" is wild.
I've been organizing, but I'm not a miracle worker. I'm not gonna be able to turnout 1 million by myself. I have to have accomplices. Where are the people who want to do the work instead of complain that the game is rigged?
