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What the fuck? How does this happen?

This is a prediction.

The US democratic party is a party of centrists with no goals

That's just not true. The democratic party is a coalition group with a great variety of goals that don't form a coherent ideal. You have AOC who's a either a social democrat saying she's a democratic socialist or a democratic socialist who's hiding her true ideals behind policies that advance her goals but are far easier to sell than what she really wants. Then you have obvious fascists who are clearly there only to enable the wealthy. Aside from them you have the people who believe that the democratic process is sacrosanct and above defiance even in the face of someone obviously attempting to subvert it.

Aside from that, on average the Democrats prefer action against climate change, that the rights of minorities be protected, and are less anti-worker than the GOP. These are real differences that matter. There's no such thing as "centrism" and pretending otherwise is an amazing way to excuse not supporting the largest institution that will lock your worst enemies out of power, even if they don't do anything.

Furthermore, even if the DNC literally never got anything done (which, to be clear, they have done good things that support workers like favorable rules for Unions)that would be great for us, because it'd mean their feckless ineffectual leadership would give us plenty of room to build parallel institutions, educate, and bring others around to our ways of thinking. When the GOP is in charge that becomes harder and it's more dangerous for everyone involved.

What's Pomodoro?

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Abstentionists be like "we did it! we saved Gaza!"

Abstentionists are dumbasses.

That was well-thought-out and well-said, thank you.

This is why we're losing. If your political movement can't have allies who aren't strictly members, then you'll lose. If you push people away who may disagree but are sympathetic, you'll lose.

This is why the fascists are winning. They are welcoming everyone who they can stomach until the second they don't need to. This is why tankies always get us in the end; because they can pretend for as long as they need to use us, and then discard us without qualm.

Left-libertarians in general and Anarchists in particular need to learn to not let the perfect become the enemy of the good. Because RN everyone else is letting the imperfect become the ally of evil.

Wife.