But people just wouldn’t believe you after being lied to by every other political force for 50 years.
And this is why any non-duopoly political movement in the US, even a socialist one, is doomed to fail. People in this country intrinsically know, even if they can't artciulate it, that government exists only to hurt them and politicians are all hucksters. Plus protests are scary, disruption is scary, communism is scary. People have absolutely no reason to trust a party promising radical change for the better when that's what every politician's been promising since 1972 with no results. Doubly so for the scary socialists who love mask mandates and antifa and hate everything else.
Mr. Bones' wild ride will not get better, it must crash.
National Politics is a dead end without some kind of material labor activism at the state and local level. Otherwise, you're just sending up your AOCs to argue with their MTGs, while they control gerrymandered districts and voter-disenfranchised swing states that control the balance of power.
There's no harm in voting. And occasionally you get lucky with a Lina Hidalgo or John Fetterman or Bernie Sanders. But until local communities can do a little class warfare to underpin their political position - like the Mexican truckers shutting down traffick on the US/Mexico southbound lanes to protest Greg Abbott's shitty immigrant harassment - elections don't offer any real leverage.
And this is why any non-duopoly political movement in the US, even a socialist one, is doomed to fail. People in this country intrinsically know, even if they can't artciulate it, that government exists only to hurt them and politicians are all hucksters. Plus protests are scary, disruption is scary, communism is scary. People have absolutely no reason to trust a party promising radical change for the better when that's what every politician's been promising since 1972 with no results. Doubly so for the scary socialists who love mask mandates and antifa and hate everything else.
Mr. Bones' wild ride will not get better, it must crash.
I think you could launch a successful third party campaign based on exactly this point. but you'd need a lot of money and good execution.
It would be Bernie 3.0, with similar results. I think the electoral route's been thoroughly proven non-viable.
National Politics is a dead end without some kind of material labor activism at the state and local level. Otherwise, you're just sending up your AOCs to argue with their MTGs, while they control gerrymandered districts and voter-disenfranchised swing states that control the balance of power.
There's no harm in voting. And occasionally you get lucky with a Lina Hidalgo or John Fetterman or Bernie Sanders. But until local communities can do a little class warfare to underpin their political position - like the Mexican truckers shutting down traffick on the US/Mexico southbound lanes to protest Greg Abbott's shitty immigrant harassment - elections don't offer any real leverage.