I think that there is merit to this argument if you are talking local politics, but even still I have doubts that this is more effective than dozens of other programs. Tenant organizing, labor organizing, food distributions, school supply drives, tutoring programs- there are so many things where you are actually impacting people in a way that builds sincere, strong relationships that can be mobilized to do more than just show up to vote every four years. With the amount of money and labor hours PSL throws into campaigns, resources that most colonized groups will never have in their organizing work, it is really wild to me that people are out here defending what is essentially a PR stunt. You would expect there to be some other call to action beyond donating money and voting once.

I have hope for PSL anyway, there's not much else going on in the US outside of hyper local groups, but these contradictions are certainly there and no one from PSL seems to want to acknowledge them.