RE: https://sfba.social/@drahardja/116394275247729227
All this. And note that Hungarians didn’t •just• vote; they organized the heck of themselves, they built coalition on top of coalition, they fought and finagled their way around state control, and •then• they voted.
The election wasn’t the •cause• of Orbán’s defeat; it was the •tool•.
YES! You cannot minimize the impact of their organization and grit. They had an awfully high hill to climb to get this result.
@inthehands I really appreciate this characterization of voting as the tool, the last step not the first or only. Thank you for the encouragement.
In the US the system is broken, but that doesn’t mean we can’t still use it to defeat our dictators. But we also need to be prepared to fix the system when we succeed.
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@inthehands I’d make the case that it wasn’t even the tool. He really lost when the hard work of activism and organizing took root. The election was just making it official.
The same goes for Trump. Our job is to make him (or his would-be successor) a loser well before the 2028 election. If we keep the pressure on and keep convincing more and more people to see clearly how unfit he is in every way, we will get there. But bringing more people along for the ride is crucial.
Surely at some level that concedes the point? The fact that it was a useful •tool• in Hungary doesn't necessarily tell us much of anything about the extent to which it's a useful tool in the U.S.?
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