• InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world
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    25 days ago

    Electoralism in a rigged system is wasted effort.

    Is it stacked against us? Yes. Wasted effort? Sorry you find trying to build policy to help your local community is a waste, or that you cannot be bother to at least slow down harms coming its way.

    Voting for your favorite candidate isn’t where things start. It takes a lot to get them on the ballot for a major party and still a lot for them to go third party to create a spoil and concessions. Still most people will not be involved much past casting a ballot. If your movement cannot be bothered to do that; then you are not going to be taken seriously.

    Forgive me as well, but few leftist are doing a community garden and shit posting on the internet. They won’t show on elections, so its hard to see them showing up with rifles for the revolution they claim to want too.

    Your defeatist attitude is also quite despicable. Your garden isn’t changing how agriculture is done at a mass scale or removing profit motive from foods. Is that a wasted effort? I wouldn’t say so.

    All war is class war and elections are just one front in our struggles. A front that we have foolishly surrendered unconditionally. We could have been in a better position today; we could have been pragmatic. but we chose to do nothing.