There’s a dichotomy shaping up in this midterm election year. The national political landscape could hardly look worse for Trump and Republicans.
At the same time, the GOP is suddenly resurgent in the redistricting fight, getting significant wins this week in Virginia and Tennessee that could soften the blow they might have suffered without them.
No matter where you are, how secure or how futile you think it is, you better be voting Democrat in November.
If you’re upset by AIPAC or corporate shills, now is your chance to make Dems a little more leftist by participating in the Democratic Primaries in your state.
But vote Dem in November. Even if it’s a loss, we need to make the disparity of representation versus actual popular vote due to gerrymandering as wide as possible, for that will be a point of persuasion in the longterm fight ahead and going into 2028.
I’d say take the most effective action you can to keep a Republican from power. Whether it’s voting for a Democrat or not voting at all, taking some other action. Because despite being better than Republicans. That’s a low bar, and establishment Democrats are still a solid part of the problem in their own right.
Though I would hope many learned the lesson of hyper focusing only on democrats for a problem shared between the parties or more indicative of Republicans. When Democrats are unfortunately the only group that can keep a republican from power. The situation inside Israel would have likely been the same under Harris as Trump. But the situation outside, venezuela, canada, greenland, iran, Europe, Libya, etc etc etc etc. Would have been very different and probably better for all.
The establishment leadership of either party isn’t interested in understanding why they lose. They’re just going to chase whoever won. Which is why they spend so much time catering to fascists that vote regularly and not to progressives that will almost never vote for them out of principal. Democrats don’t care to understand that the fascists won’t vote for them. Simply because they are Democrat and the fash supporters have been indoctrinated to reactionarily hate them. There is no amount of outreach that will actually be able to reach those people no matter how hard they keep chasing. But they will keep chasing those that vote.
1000 John Fettermans!
Better than 2000 Dr. Ozs!
And all the more reason to get involved in the Democratic primaries to get as many of those Fetterman out and improve our team.
Entropy is a bitch and I don’t take kindly to accelerationist volunteering me and my kids for the slaughter for their hunch.
Given how much they seem to agree on policy, it’s hard to say.
Just Donate More Money!
^ For the record, bystanders note I have this user tagged as endorsing and voting for Jill Stein in 2024. So yeah… Thanks for that and falling for the right-wing spoiler vote kool-aid. The outcome of that was oh so fruitful, huh? lol
Edit: By the way, 24,400 comments in less than 3 years. Wow. Just wow. My dude is singlehandedly keeping Lemmy afloat lol
Funny how that was actually RFK Jr, but he got so much traction with liberals Trump just on boarded him to his own campaign.
You’re correct, you need more than voting for things both parties agree on