“James Adomian”There will not be “free and fair” US elections in 2026 or 2028, but the Assholes are not omnipotent or popular - they only won with 30% of the population, which is their support ceiling across the decade.
The Democrats should aim for platforms and campaigns that inspire 200 million people to come out and vote against illegal shadow president Elon Musk in the next 2-12 years, so it’s beyond the range he and Hindenburg can steal.
This “landslide revolution” strategy would be very similar to the supermajority left-populist positions Bernie Sanders ran on, via younger charismatic candidates - simply now allowed in the general elections so that all those who agree can vote, and updated to address the new technofascist outrages.
Crucially, this path would not repeat the arrogant and ignorant Cheney-chasing, where they obsessively tried to sway whatever few “centrist” swing voters there are in the country. It is rather aimed to bring out unprecedented numbers of previously disillusioned nonvoters, on a broad emergency basis.
A needle that can be very easily threaded: loudly run on hyperpopular issues at a trumpeting volume, and run on less popular goodguy issues at a lower volume: aka “reverse dog whistle.” If something is righteous but unpopular, promise it quietly or handle it with rhetorical panache. Win and do good.
Be theatrical and brazen like pro wrestlers, since that’s what this has become (if we are very lucky). Call Elon Musk an ugly wimp on television. Call Donald Trump porky and unsmart. It’s okay to be 10% “incorrect” and bodyshame fascists with the stakes this high - Daffy Duck did it, so can we.
Deliciously, if you free yourself from the Year 2000 traumatized mindset - “we have to win a very close low turnout race with an unimpressive candidate!” - the election races will trend more towards landslides in the right direction.
If we’re aiming to get 200 million people out voting against The Beast, the Democrats should permanently retire these as failed strategies: voteshaming, fenced off debates, and fixed primaries. Do a three or four way general election debate: you will look magnanimous and win far more than you lose.
None of this is impossible but I am well aware also that none of it will happen. Every wealthy and therefore powerful person seems to believe either they can still win a narrow “centrist” election, or that it’s all just doomed. But I had to get it out there to be ignored like everything else I do. 🤪
Beggar Midas@jadomian Well, buddy. Clearly you've got a lot of soul searching to be getting to after taking a good hard clear-eyed look at the actual world you live in. I won't keep you any further from it. But I wouldn't take too long to reorient. Stasis can be a fatal affliction in fast evolving situations like this.
There's only two ways this gets solved. It ain't systemically. System had it's shot & failed. One of those ways involves you & everyone like you dumped in anonymous mass graves, eventually.
There's only two ways this gets solved. It ain't systemically. System had it's shot & failed. One of those ways involves you & everyone like you dumped in anonymous mass graves, eventually.