Unless the candidate is a progressive, then the establishment Dems won't endorse them (unless the progressive wins, then suddenly they totally supported the progressive all along)

(no, I'm not saying don't vote, just frustrated by the fucking hypocrisy)

Gang, this isn't complicated. You fight the Democratic establishment 364 days a year. On election day you pick the lesser evil, which hopefully all that fighting you did made much less evil. We have an archaic election system, and until that changes (work to change it), that's the best path forward.

It's so obvious the person who made this is on the left side of this picture.

Only a lib could give the girl on the right both an anarchy patch and a bernie 2020 hat.

Watch out guy,s, new wave of astroturfing incoming!!!

"Would you like to be stabbed or punched in the face? If you don't pick one we'll go for the stabbing."

I hate it, but please vote.

I hate this so much

Or, now here me out, Dems could run a platform people want to vote for?

The thing about this that really makes me ashamed of the democratic establishment is the depiction of the girl on the right vs on the left. This post is literally trying to marginalize progressives. Just look at lemmy, half the progressives here are cishet conputer programmers and Linux nerds in their 40s. This post is trying to enforce a harmful stereotype to make progressives seem like a smaller, less influencial, more radicalized group. It's already playing into bigotry: the progressive is shown as younger (ageism), with darker skin (racism), more "radical" views, as a drug addict., etc; enforcing the bias that progressives are somehow irresponsible young'uns with unrealistic world-views. Fuck this shit. Never thought I'd see something so obviously bigoted on Lemmy.

I'mma vote for the lesser of two evils. What I won't do is fist bump a republican liteᵗᵐ like they didn't torpedo every fucking progressive they could. I remember south carolina, biden was dead in the water and suddenly "centrists consolidated" and he was a fucking front runner.

Yay.

Election season.

People telling me to vote blue no matter who like I haven’t been doing that since I was 18.

And I’m fucking old.

Not to mention the arguments. People just mad everywhere.

I love politics and don’t hate this stupid game I’m forced to play and always lose.

What a stupid world.

Fascists don't fear blue voters. You know what they fear? Shattered teeth

No its, vote blue no matter who* only applicable if the said blue candidate is not progressive

and the whole fucking time we are voting in primaries, it’s all “progressive candidates can’t win the election” and astroturfed lies and slander using democratic funds to hurt itself in its own confusion. want my vote? field candidates that i would vote for.

and no kings is performative at best

Get infinite Fetterman’s with this one weird trick.

Eww reddit content in my lemmy feed

More dem slop, they still don't understand why they can't win elections. I'd point it out for them, but they'd just scream 'blue no matter who' instead of listening.

This makes me want to throw up

It benefits the security state for a Dem to take the helm and lull the masses back to sleep with sweet words while continuing 99% of Trump's policies

Nah I'm sticking third party. Not like the Dems care about my state anyway or that anyone worth a damn would run in the primaries here.

Fascist fear millennial cringe?

Fascists fear class solidarity

"ANY BLUE WILL DO™"^*^

*Terms an conditions apply.

ANY BLUE WILL DO™ — TERMS AND CONDITIONS

By repeating, accepting, endorsing, or being shamed into the phrase “Any Blue Will Do,” you agree to the following Terms and Conditions.

1. Binding Obligation of the Voter

You agree that “Any Blue Will Do” creates a total, unconditional, irrevocable, morally compulsory obligation to support any candidate designated by the Democratic Party, its consultants, donors, cable news surrogates, or random accounts with flag emojis.

Support may include voting, donating, volunteering, defending the candidate online, pretending the platform is “actually pretty progressive,” and explaining to younger voters why asking for healthcare is helping fascism.

2. Definition of “Blue”

For purposes of this Agreement, “Blue” means any candidate, officeholder, nominee, former Republican, ex-CIA analyst, prosecutor, donor-friendly mayor, or person who has appeared on a Democratic ballot line.

Notwithstanding the above, “Blue” shall not include leftists, socialists, labor candidates, anti-war candidates, or anyone who causes donors to say “deeply concerning.”

3. Institutional Discretion

The Democratic Party reserves the sole, exclusive, perpetual, and non-reviewable right to decide when “Any Blue Will Do” applies.

This determination may be made before, during, or after the election; in a closed-door meeting; through a leaked memo; or retroactively after the wrong kind of Democrat wins.

4. Primary Election Exceptions

Although “Any Blue Will Do” may appear to imply neutrality among Democrats, nothing shall prevent the Party from promoting, funding, endorsing, defending, or quietly coordinating for any candidate deemed sufficiently Normal.

The Party may intervene against left-wing candidates through endorsements, donor pressure, debate exclusion, ballot challenges, super PACs, whisper campaigns, consultant networks, or sudden concerns about electability.

Such actions shall not violate “Any Blue Will Do,” because leftists should have known what the phrase meant.

5. Electability Clause

You agree that “electability” means whatever the Party needs it to mean at the time.

A moderate losing by six points proves the country is center-right.

A leftist losing by six points proves progressive politics are permanently toxic.

A moderate winning narrowly is a mandate for bipartisan austerity.

A leftist winning decisively is a local anomaly.

6. Vote-Shaming Rights Reserved

The Party, its affiliates, surrogates, influencers, and emotionally exhausted liberals reserve the right to shame, scold, guilt, condescend to, or morally indict you for any failure to provide enthusiastic support.

This right survives all prior mistreatment, broken promises, ignored policy demands, abandoned constituencies, donor triangulation, union-busting, war funding, anti-immigrant pivoting, or sabotage of your preferred candidate.

Your obligation to vote blue remains in full force regardless of whether the Party has made any effort to earn your vote.

7. No Reciprocal Duty

Nothing in this Agreement creates any reciprocal obligation on the part of the Democratic Party to support candidates, policies, platforms, movements, voters, unions, tenants, students, debtors, the uninsured, the unhoused, the anti-war left, or anyone who has ever said the word “material.”

The voter’s duty is mandatory.

The Party’s duty is aspirational, symbolic, non-binding, means-tested, subject to committee review, and likely dead on arrival in the Senate.

8. Platform Disclaimer

Any platform, promise, slogan, campaign speech, town hall answer, website bullet point, or “we hear you” statement is non-binding promotional material.

The Party may abandon, dilute, reframe, study, means-test, postpone, sunset, privatize, or blame the parliamentarian for any stated policy objective.

No voter shall infer from campaign rhetoric the existence of an actual commitment.

9. Leftist Candidate Contingency

In the event that a leftist wins a Democratic primary, “Any Blue Will Do” may be suspended, modified, inverted, or replaced with:

“We need a serious candidate.”

“This district is more moderate than people think.”

“We have concerns about temperament.”

“They haven’t built relationships.”

“The tweets are problematic.”

“This is not the right time.”

“We need someone who can win.”

The Party may further reserve the right to remain neutral, quietly assist the opponent, withhold funding, or discover a sudden principled objection to party loyalty.

10. Consultant Protection Clause

No provision of this Agreement shall endanger the sacred right of consultants to be paid millions of dollars to lose winnable races while advising candidates to say nothing, offend no donors, avoid popular economic policies, and appear in diners wearing rolled-up sleeves.

Consultant compensation shall not be contingent on winning elections.

11. Donor Supremacy Clause

In the event of a conflict between voters and donors, donors shall prevail.

In the event of a conflict between the platform and donors, donors shall prevail.

In the event of a conflict between democracy and donors, a task force shall be convened after the election.

12. Unity

You agree that “unity” means left-wing voters supporting the nominee chosen by the Party.

You further agree that “division” means left-wing voters asking for anything in return.

Calls for unity may be issued immediately after the Party has spent months calling your candidate unelectable, dangerous, unserious, divisive, unrealistic, toxic, radical, online, or insufficiently grateful.

13. Harm Reduction

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Any contradiction shall be resolved in favor of the Party.

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You may be thanked in fundraising emails.

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The Democratic Party reserves the right to amend these Terms at any time without notice.

Amendments may be announced by think tank memo, anonymous senior aide quote, cable news panel consensus, donor retreat, consultant Substack, or sudden redefinition of what “realistic” means.

Continued existence under Republican threat shall constitute acceptance of all amended Terms.

17. Enforcement

This Agreement shall be enforced exclusively against voters to the left of the nominee.

No enforcement mechanism shall apply to conservative Democrats, corporate Democrats, swing-district moderates, billionaire donors, retired generals, anti-choice incumbents, oil-state senators, police-union candidates, or anyone who says “kitchen table issues” while opposing the policies that would help people afford kitchens or tables.

18. Remedies

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vote-shaming, accusations of privilege, accusations of Russian influence, lectures about 2016, screenshots of Supreme Court decisions, demands that you “grow up,” comparisons to Republicans, and fundraising emails addressed to “Friend.”

These remedies apply regardless of whether your criticism is accurate.

19. Entire Agreement

These Terms constitute the entire agreement between the Democratic Party and the voter, superseding all prior hopes, movements, promises, platforms, speeches, donations, canvassing shifts, and moments when you briefly believed this relationship might become less abusive.

By proceeding, you acknowledge that “Any Blue Will Do” means any blue will do for you, not for them.

20. Acceptance

By voting, not voting, considering voting, discussing voting, posting, lurking, donating, organizing, complaining, or failing to clap loudly enough, you agree to be bound by these Terms and Conditions.

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Void where democracy is practiced.

Fascists are not scared of being voted out lmao.

With patience, you when. If your stance is unchanging, and you just chip away, taking every little bit of power as you can, constantly angling for a best strategic position, you will win.

Fascist will always have a chance, they're not scared of being out voted. They're scared of the working class digging their asses out of their heads and realizing what's up.

That being said, absolutely still vote.

at GITMO they refuse to show this pic to inmates because it’s considered torture.

Good job OP, you earned your label.

nope. when blue also supports genocide, blue is clearly part of the problem.

The virgin Hillary establishment democrat neolib atheist cishet ally versus the chad vape and xanax addicted poly amorous anarcho-socialist non binary zoomer

I'm pretty jaded and cynical about the whole thing at this point, but I also don't have a better idea. Idk, just do whatever you think is right.

Fascists are scared of a lot of things, but this isn't one of them. One camp uses a degree of class analysis, while the other is aggressively identitarian and thinks class politics are the hallmark of a bad person who'll abandon marginalized groups.

Both rely chiefly on electoral wins to get the outcome they want. This alliance is a paper tiger.

If you want to know why lefties lose you need only look at the comments critical of this post.

It's absolutely valid to be displeased by how center or right-leaning the "left-wing" candidates are. But you have to accept that only supporting your perfect candidate is just going to keep pushing all candidates to the right as they lose.

If you keep doing something over and over, for decades, and still everything gets worse, then that something isn't working. Feels like something that doesn't need saying, but apparently it does.

Lol good luck with that

This is a shit meme in many ways?

The funniest thing is how 'muricans look at this and say "yes, we're a free democracy"

Siri define 'the ratchet effect'

Oh boy, the Republican consultants here to depress Dem turnout with primary purity tests and doomscrolling have arrived in the comments

But maybe , just maybe this time let's not force us to go with establishment democrats, let the people actually decide.

When we can rely on centrists to vote blue even when the primary winner is one of the progressives they hate almost as much as they hate the idea of a living Palestinian, then they can tell us to vote blue no matter who, and not one fucking second before.

We saw the disgusting racist attacks the centrist wing made against Mamdani. Centrists haven't changed one bit since they formed a PAC to get McCain elected because they didn't want a Black man to be their nominee. Centrists are "vote blue no matter who" only until they don't get 100% of everything they want, then they revert back to "party unity my ass" and campaign for shit like Cuomo.

The message here is the same as always from centrists: Shut up and fall in line because we hate you and always will.

Yeah so a lot of Israel politicians and Republicans actually run as blue candidates.

That's lazy thinking.

Yeah no. You wanna know why so many progressives are getting nominations this cycle? It's because we didn't "vote blue no matter who" last year and the corpocrats are kind of realizing they're gonna have to budge to actually get people to the polls again. Vote for the person you... want to vote for.

no thnx, thats how you end up with bluemaga and the uniparty

Like giving a free pass to those who through corruption and distance from the people enabled republicans to put a monster at the head of the white house?

im upset

What a dank meme my fellow left wing ally!!

Get mean vote green

Yeah, they’re terrified of Fetterman, Manchin, Schumer, etc.

Who's the Artist?

Who's the artist? If anyone knows

Future dictator surely approves!

Vote geeen for jelly beans (they taste the best)

The people mad at this post, unironically and without any self awareness, also get mad about "both sides ism" and complain that the left isn't a unified front.

Democrats are alright. Maybe not the national ones but the ones that help out locally

If voting worked, they wouldn't let you do it.

Good idea, commenters. Lets keep fighting each other about the perfect candidate for an election that already happened. Surely this will change the situation were in