What's really the point of any of this? Force the vote, cush bomb nonsense, menaker movie rants.
What's really the point? Chapo at this point is just a grift. They offer no solutions just depression. Matt even admits in one of his cush logs that he'll be here to just keep gifting after the election.
Force our politicians to do anything why? Why should we bother. Clearly the left is just going to swirl down the drain of nihilism while the right invades capitals.
What's really the point of the left?
Parallel power comes from having organised structures which are capable of positively affecting humans lives like unions, cooperatives and so forth which are lead by socialists. How can you build those organisations if you're not engaged in campaigns to achieve material benefits for people such as M4A?
Uh..what? The parallel power agitates for the change, so you need to build it up, so that it can do so. You need a sturdy-ass movement that will keep demanding change and currently no such thing exists on a large enough scale.
The proposal here is the reverse. Somehow through a few dems asking for and failing to get M4A through congress, without any support from the press or anyone, we will get ahead. How is that supposed to work? Which Fox news level media organization will report on these attempts in a positive light for years on end to energize people, for one?
No, it's not the reverse. A good example is the way Kschama Sawant (I'm generally not very fond of tratskyst, but in the US she's the best example, unfortunatly) is used by socialist alternative. She uses her position as a megaphone for the broader movement, and that's an important part of both popularising demands and giving people hope that change is possible. Seattly won $15 minimum wage and a tax on large corporations and Sawant as the most famous propagator played a large part in that.
Yes, Sawant wouldn't be were she was without a movement, but the movement wouldn't be where it is without the elected socialist. They reinforce eachother, and that's exactly how socialists should use electoral politics.
If AOC and the rest of the squad would be comitted socialists, they'd use their position in a similar way. They're extremely popular figures so they could force the media to acknowledge what's happening, but also, they'd be able to communicate directly with the population trough their own channels.