They then must also vote in increasingly progressive candidates in primaries and local politics.
BINGO. This is the way.
because this imperfect system is very slow, and won’t change over night.
Lemmy is full of people who blew their vote on a 3rd party or didn’t vote out of apathy or anger over a single issue that simply refuse to grasp this concept. 3rd party voters actually thought they could make a random unknown candidate the president, despite being a member of a practically non-existent party with ZERO representatives in Congress. Then their most popular 3rd party candidate got a whopping half of a single percent of the total votes cast, confirming that no 3rd party is going to win anytime soon. Probably in their lifetimes. They refuse to grasp that the real way to work within this shit system is to elect the Democrats then reform the party by voting out the members that won’t get onboard with more progressive policies. Political party reforms have happened multiple times in American history and conservatives just did it in the worst way possible to the Republican party.
I love that Lemmy is almost devoid of conservatives, because I don’t need to listen to shitstains argue in bad faith in favor of fascism. But honestly, there’s so many of these people that I just described on here that refuse to work realistically within the established system that it makes me lose a lot of hope for the future. I guess they’re just banking on a revolution without realizing that not only is that probably not going to happen, but there are many examples in history of things being worse afterward because there was no plan for afterward and the void gets filled by something worse.
Long story short, you’re right. Elect the party that isn’t literally fucking fascists. Then reform it by voting out the non-progressives. That’s the only realistic way we get this nation back on track.
BINGO. This is the way.
Lemmy is full of people who blew their vote on a 3rd party or didn’t vote out of apathy or anger over a single issue that simply refuse to grasp this concept. 3rd party voters actually thought they could make a random unknown candidate the president, despite being a member of a practically non-existent party with ZERO representatives in Congress. Then their most popular 3rd party candidate got a whopping half of a single percent of the total votes cast, confirming that no 3rd party is going to win anytime soon. Probably in their lifetimes. They refuse to grasp that the real way to work within this shit system is to elect the Democrats then reform the party by voting out the members that won’t get onboard with more progressive policies. Political party reforms have happened multiple times in American history and conservatives just did it in the worst way possible to the Republican party.
I love that Lemmy is almost devoid of conservatives, because I don’t need to listen to shitstains argue in bad faith in favor of fascism. But honestly, there’s so many of these people that I just described on here that refuse to work realistically within the established system that it makes me lose a lot of hope for the future. I guess they’re just banking on a revolution without realizing that not only is that probably not going to happen, but there are many examples in history of things being worse afterward because there was no plan for afterward and the void gets filled by something worse.
Long story short, you’re right. Elect the party that isn’t literally fucking fascists. Then reform it by voting out the non-progressives. That’s the only realistic way we get this nation back on track.