We can push two buttons. We all push thousands of buttons every day. I think we keep forgetting its real life and we have more than just right now. I look forward to pushing every button I think might help, even if it means using both hands.

  • CenkUygurCamp [none/use name]
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    4 years ago

    https://www.defendingdemocracytogether.org/national-security/

    You know how angry you get when you think of all the crimes the U.S. committed abroad? The guys that did it just told you they can do their job better under Biden

    • PopCultureIsTheCIA [he/him]
      3·
      4 years ago

      Foreign policy is a lagging indicator of who's been voting for the past 2 decades. The left refuses to vote and our foreign policy reflects that.

    • PopCultureIsTheCIA [he/him]
      3·
      4 years ago

      I'm sorry I don't understand what you mean. What does this have to do with the strategic value of voting vs not-voting as a long term strategy for increasing worker rights? Electoral strategies aren't for elections, they're for lifetimes. That's why sociopaths like the Koch brothers will always have more of an effect than psychopaths like Steve Bannon.

      Lets accept the fact that we have 20-60 years of activism of ahead of ourselves and settle in for the long haul. Voting for the lesser evil, moves that market. That one small president market that's actually just a lagging indicator of other shit. Let's attack the problem from both ends. Vote for the loser, force him to have his donors arrested in March.

      • CenkUygurCamp [none/use name]
        1·
        4 years ago

        Why don't you tell me how Biden can be part of any long-term socialist electoral strategy. His entire career, the party he is a veteran of and his function in the last career suggests he might be hostile to worker's rights

        • PopCultureIsTheCIA [he/him]
          4·
          4 years ago

          long-term socialist electoral strategy

          3 elections without a far right candidate winning and the overton window shifts. biden now. warren later. bernie eventually. And the fact that bernie will be dead by then is the point. The "Bernie" we'll eventually get won't be a 70 year old career politician.

          The levers they bought work a certain way, pretending that electoral politics is a dark art we can't study is just silly.