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Saw this posted on some .world or .lu instance. According to those folks this is what happens when people don’t show up to vote for a candidate who’s not sufficiently left enough, despite voters agreeing with 90% of the candidates policies. The app I use crashed before I could tell the commenter how they single-handedly saved me from the authoritarian left. I mean how could you possibly refute that analysis? I don’t really think you can. Maybe if there was a basic as hell meme that illustrated lesser evilism using wojaks and rage faces to spoon feed this concept it to me then I could be convinced that voting in bourgeois elections is a nearly meaningless activity thanks to the both parties being owned by capital, one of which consistently capitulates to the other, thus moving the entire corporate political spectrum further to the right with every election despite who people vote for. But since I’ve never seen a meme like that I’ll just have to wait 4 years to vote for Gavin Newsom’s presidential ticket.
despite voters agreeing with 90% of the candidates policies.
Citation fucking needed.
Electoralism discussion
Oh, got it, so the reason the Democratic Party is moving farther to the right is that the left doesn't like the Democratic Party moving farther to the right, so all we need to do is
hard enough to move the Democrats left?
It would be such a ridiculous idea to actually run a candidate that even pretends to care about what their voters want, don't you think?These nonvoters are so entitled. They want representation in their government. Sorry sweetie, that’s not how democracy™️ works.
It isn't the non-voters it is the party. These politicians are so entitled. We're making genocide, the border wall, tax cuts, corporate friendly policies, etc. Bipartisan. So you can't vote for any different positions. Sorry sweetie that's how representative democracy works. But we're owed support anyway.
They want to move right because of donor money and class position, and are able to as long as enough voters still hold their nose and come out to be at all competitive. That is why the dems base has been getting wealthier and whiter consistently the last 30 years (with a small blip due to turn out for Obama), because that is the only people the want to appeal to.
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Wooooosh