If you are a white leftist and you talk “both parties are the same they are both capitalist” you will loose most of your black audience. I think it ought to be obvious that this isn’t because blackfolks love Democrats (in most cases, there is always someone being simple in any group) —no. it’s because the difference between the parties is material and obvious and these are unstable times.
When I hear such talk I wonder if the speaker is working on voter suppression.
Voting brings me no joy — but I never miss an election out of a kind of stubborn spite. I’ve never heard anyone explain how having all the marginalized and left leaning people not vote would be more annoying to the Democrats and Republicans than if we all do vote— and for the Democrats especially in the primaries.
I also don’t think voting is real political engagement, but it’s kind of the bare minimum. Even if you do a write-in for every office.
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I hope to be able to make what I call the Transitive Property of Two-Party Politics more widely accepted before 2024 elections.
It's basically that Lesser Evil = Less Evil.
@GreenFire @futurebird Depends on what you mean by "less evil." Less evil than if you voted for the greater evil? Yeah, sure.
Less evil than before? I doubt that, given what's happened to the Overton window in my lifetime. As Mark Shea used to say, voting for the lesser evil yields *more* evil at a slower pace.
Of course, sometimes "less evil than the other option" is urgently *needed* so I have nothing against strategic voting as a tool. I do it. But it's not the Only Right Way To Vote Ever.
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