Winning over one voter is much harder than convincing someone not to vote. It’s exactly the sort of strategy an effective political actor would engage in to win when faced with a deeply unpopular party.

"People who held a belief in the past still hold it now? How suspicious!"

Get this bullshit out of here? You are the liberal in a communist space, the one that doesn't belong is you

Progressives are winning more and more seats

Can't undersell the amount of progress DSA and its allies have made in the last six years.

But we're talking about half a dozen Congressional seats. A smattering of state and local races. Lots of people who are totally untested and unproven. Lots of people - like El Sayud and Mamdani - who seem more than happy to meet Zionists and bigot reactionaries halfway.

And they're squaring off against legions of ICE goons, corporate drones, and fascist billionaires fully on board with mass extermination of their opponents.

Look at Bo French down in Texas. This is a guy who is advocating a Holocaust of 100M people across the US. He's polling even with Jon Rosenthal, a Democrat who wants to maybe raise taxes on energy companies a little bit.

the DNC will be replaced

I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for it to happen.

Didn't the DNC largely get taken over by progressives already? Which is probably why progressives are sometimes winning primaries now: The DNC aren't ratfucking them anymore.

For those complaining that the DNC not endorsing progressives until after they won the primary -- that's what "not ratfucking the primary" looks like. The DNC is not supposed to play favorites in the primary.

It's going to take a while before there's traction in actual Congress, though, because they take longer to replace. But as soon as you have enough progressives to get actual leverage, you're going to start seeing a lot more happening.

Those progressives you cheer for still uphold the oppressive systems that keep the working class down.

The accountability Democrats created after a literal attempted coup, and having the power to do something about it for four years:

We're here because of the repeated and reliable failure of Democrats. And that failure is possible because of commentors like you.

Buddy I think they’ve got all the help they need.

Democrats are the fascists that help enable fascism to flourish

If you take a glance at their profile you can see they don't actually believe in voting because they think the west (which let's be honest no one from the US calls ourselves that) is all evil lol

The West is one single evil entity

https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/comment/21495327

No. You're missing the point. Suppression is not what tricking you into believing voting making a difference when the trick was always to make you think that what is done to you is what you asked for. In this particular when Trump took a criminal stank of green blood of gold to do and eat this dirt work being done and nothing at all for the Jerry rig to the card "shuffler."

I'm not American, so I know very little about newscom, what's so bad about him?

he seemed to have fell of the news as of late.

I love how a simple and obvious critique of the perpetual failure which is the Democratic party is almost routinely met with the Hey this isn't cheerleading?! retort.

oh no someone's robbing the bank, somebody do something!

don't worry, I've got a banana peel and some lint from my pocket!

how is that gonna help?

you're being defeatist!

Which is why the MAGA comedy act of Schmuck & Jeffries has to get the hook and be dragged off stage. They are 50% responsible for the rise, and re-rise of MAGA, and they e done nothing to earn a third chance at containing them.

It's time we give competent, committed people the job of resisting MAGA, since these two have fully proved that they are not up to the task. In fact, when this is over, and we're investigating everybody, we should also check into these two losers, because we'll almost certainly find they were collaborating with MAGA all along. If that's true, then they should end up in jail with their MAGA friends.

they also wrote nyt best seller books in protest, and did photo ops in protest, traded stocks in protest, secretly met with kushner in protest.

I heard this so much during Biden's term of "holding Dems accountable" and "we're pushing them left".

Then Biden did this right before leaving (not even accounting for all the anti-worker shit he did before then during his time in office). Yeah we really held them accountable and pushed him left.

Lol, you really think anyone believes this anymore?

It couldn't possibly be the Democrats doing nothing that causes voters to be apathetic, rather than users of an obscure social media platform complaining. I mean, c'mon, we gotta be realistic!

Waiting for justice for Trumps role in J6 from the period of J7 2020 till November 2024:

Remember how lib's were sucking off Meuller, and then Garland, and then smith while Justice lay "just around the corner". Pepperridge farms remembers.

Our problem isn't actually Republicans. Republicans are predictable and always will do the worst thing. They can be easily stopped if Democrats had the will to act. Our problem is Democrats who shield republicans from accountability, and those who protect Democrats from criticism and replacement.

Third time's the charm right? They'll totally actually get rid of him this time unlike the previous times they wasted time and money doing it.

I don't care whether you do or don't,

We can fucking tell. Go away.