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Which is why the practical arm of the left promotes the Dems. Not because they are enough, or even good, but because of the two options they are the less overtly fascist. We don't vote blue because it's sufficient, we do it because it's necessary to slow the descent enough for sufficient methods to take hold. Neo liberal democracy is a farce, but it's a farce with a bad outcome and a catastrophic outcome.
We vote for bad to stave off catastrophe, so good can actually establish a foothold. Didn't pay off this time unfortunately, now good has to be fantastic to even slide a toe in the door, and it's a steep uphill battle at that. You're right, fascism is definitely more prominent in the MAGA right, our job is harder than it had to be, but so it goes.
Silver lining, I guess we can lean into accelerationism now. Not my first choice, for the sake of those less financially stable than myself, but not really much option now. Send it, sure, might as well at this point. I would've preferred building a viable labor movement under the "stationary" part of the ratchet cycle, but we're here now. If we're playing the hand we're dealt, sure, accelerationism.
"Good" isn't a natural phenomenon that just needs a little space to establish a foothold. It takes deliberate action, effort, and sacrifice. And society doesn't magically reach a stable state. That's ridiculous.
Each election may have a bad and a worse outcome, but it's relative. Voting for the less-bad is a strategy that works even when both parties push toward evil. It works even when the choices are a party that supports genocide quietly and one that supports genocide loudly. If the "practical left" is just voting for the less-bad, while shitting on and shunning the people trying to do the hard work because the magical Fairy of Good hasn't yet shown up to establish that foothold with a wave of the wand, then I question how practical and how left that faction actually is.
No one is doing that.
That's funny, I seem to recall an Uncommitted movement...
As do I, but that has nothing to do with anyone doing hard, necessary work. I'd call the Uncommitted movement about the farthest thing possible from hard work to give good options a foothold. It was people doing literally nothing and pretending that would somehow improve anything.
Trying to change leadership away from evil policy is "literally nothing." Yup, this is why I'm totally done with the Democratic Party.
Declaring your refusal to vote certainly is not hard work, and unsurprisingly it wasn't even remotely effective. It was literally based on not voting, not actively doing anything, and it paved the way for policy to get exponentially worse, so to be honest it was objectively worse than "literally nothing".
You don't get credit for trying when everyone pointed out to you repeatedly that what you were trying wasn't going to work, and was in fact going to make things worse.
This is a completely false account of what happened, and is emblematic of why I'm completely done with the Democratic Party.
According to who? Because I was here, and that's exactly what happened. Pretending a bad plan had merit doesn't make it so. You are allowed to be done with the Democratic party, but that won't make anything better. Just look around you.