Edit: good to see I woke the shills

  • OprahsedCreature@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Incumbency advantage persists. Swapping to a new candidate would likely be worse, even if the candidate is better, purely based on electoralism.

    I’m sure many people will be comforted by that when he loses.

    Yes, the dems do nothing. This is better than Republicans, who do a lot of bad shit.

    Read up on the Ratchet Effect.

    What fixes issues is grassroots praxis.

    I too, like vague undefined concepts that obfuscate real potential solutions.

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      1 year ago

      It’s not about comfort, voting harder won’t meaningfully improve anything, just prevent it from getting worse.

      I’m aware of the ratchet effect.

      Do you want me to list out every meaningful thing you can do to improve your life and the lives of others? Advocate, unionize, organize, volunteer, start a community garden, work at a soup kitchen, educate yourself and others, help someone in need, etc. It isn’t that complicated, really, and your denial of actually doing shit to help and instead whine about how Biden is a Neoliberal ghoul (which I agree with) and therefore can’t beat a fascist (I disagree with this) is absurd.