RE: https://infosec.exchange/@deFractal/116330697569763423

How is it that so few #leftist and #progressive activists and organizers know this about #USPolitics? It should be an obvious conclusion based on US civics and US history. Take over as much of the #Democrats as you can during the primaries phase, select the most aligned or most susceptible civic engagement campaign target during the general election phase, and then (if you couldn't get an ideal candidate during the primaries) compel the elected to betray their largest PAC donors during the inter-election phase.

If a non-ideal elected fails to yield enough to your coordinated pressure between elections, then replace them in the next primary. Meanwhile, build your community network—hence your capacity to coordinate civic engagement and to decide primaries—and replace as many smaller-jurisdiction electeds as you can. Never let up, no matter the scale of office: school board, library board, city council, county commission, sheriff, DA, magistrate: every office, every time.

The fascists have been doing this for 50 years, and they've nearly won irreversibly. However, if the leftists, progressives, and even #liberal and centrist organizers (who have more common ground than not, when compared to the fash) play to win—not to be right and gain social media approval—they can beat the fash at this game, because leftward political goals are more aligned with empirical evidence, sound reasoning, equal justice, human rights, and egalitarian ethics.

We just must stop politicking like naive ideologues, and start basing every campaign and voting decision not on what any ideology says should work, but on what the best evidence shows actually does work.

#uspol