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Motherfucker, the only lever you have in bourgeois electoralism is your fucking vote.
If you vote for the asshole, you endorse them and their entire platform.
No, it doesn't matter that you don't agree in your head. Or that you'll march around in the streets afterwards. You've given them the power already! Why would they listen?
There literally is no such thing as "pushing someone left" once they're elected. You fucking gave them a mandate! They do not have to listen to you, you fucking lost the primary!
This is unbelievably basic shit.
Your only ability to "push" someone electorally is to threaten to withhold your vote, which you literally cannot do if you promise to vote for them.
How do people not understand basic power dynamics?
Motherfucker, the only lever you have in bourgeois electoralism is your fucking vote.
If you vote for the asshole, you endorse them and their entire platform.
No, it doesn't matter that you don't agree in your head. Or that you'll march around in the streets afterwards. You've given them the power already! Why would they listen?
There literally is no such thing as "pushing someone left" once they're elected. You fucking gave them a mandate! They do not have to listen to you, you fucking lost the primary!
This is unbelievably basic shit.
Your only ability to "push" someone electorally is to threaten to withhold your vote, which you literally cannot do if you promise to vote for them.
How do people not understand basic power dynamics?