Really the only difference between the two factions of the US one-party state, is that one is honest about their belief that a few capitalists should own the country and everyone else can starve, and the other is better at PR. Both Obama and Biden's cabinet were hand-picked by citibank for example, and both parties staunchly support genocide, even though the democrats occasionally try to pander to the left on it.
This is why I feel we need the republicans to fail so badley they become irrelevant. We need to make it clear that extreme right ideology is a death sentence to a party.
We don't need to wait for Republicans to not exist to get representation in government. With state level electoral reform, people would ve be free to vote for those who best represent their interests secure in the knowledge their vote would still be counted against those they don't want in office.
There's a new pink tide struggling to be born in Latin America right now and China continues its meteoric rise as not only a superpower, but possibly dethroning US hegemony. In addition, the Axis of resistance remains defiant against the settler-colonial entity known as Israel.
Blaming progressives for Harris' defeat would be good for a "progressive" voting bloc. The only leverage a voting bloc could ever hope to have is a credible threat to withhold a vote. Usually, those on the US "left" are not perceived as credibky threatening to withhold their vote and they can be safely ignored.
Of course voting is itself limited. If you want to develop political power for the good of humanity you need to do more than think about voting and stay far away from the Democratic Party.
It's irrelevant since the DNC has total control over which candidate matriculates to any position. In other words, the DNC ensures that any "threat" is already nipped before voters have any say at all.
Look at 2016: Debbie Wasserman-Schultz sabotaged Bernie Sanders' campaign in broad daylight and then flounced directly to the Hillary Clinton campaign to hide under her skirt. Total fucking impunity.
I'm glad Millennials and young people are aware of how the machinations really work, but it's so, so disappointing to realize how many Democrats are really just 90s era Republicans.
Oh yes, the Democratic Party is an antidemocratic capitalist party that will fight democratization to its death. There is actually an even better example, which is lefties taking over the party in Nevada via their own official process, simply organizing people to jump through the hoops Dems had set up. In response, the Dems defunded the party and built shadow campaigns with the money, then changed its rules so they could remove the lefties.
At the same time, Americans only understand politics in terms of electoralism. So the fact that they are doing the exact opposite of what a voting block should be doing to establish itself short circuits the pro-genocide "but actually it's smart to vote blue no matter who" self-defeating logic.
That would be improvement so no chance lol. If Trump wins America will only have elections in the same sense that America does.
Idk how this shit can be called "democracy" even formally, with how population density, massive gerrymandering, elector college, supreme court, disenfranchisement of vast population groups, swing states and differences in states in general influence it. And probably like a million little details i don't even know, every time i learn a new fact about US "democracy", any fact, it just point out a new argument why it isn't a democracy at all.
Rich people cause all of the wars because they don’t like being on bottom. We strengthened the US against rich people and Nazis after the WW2 and both groups have been attacking the US since. The Sacklers are the best example of why rich people shouldn’t exist. Leon is another example but the Sacklers are the type of people that really makes the world worse. They intentionally sold addictive drugs to the public. Thats Nazi level shit right there. Harris NEEDS to win because what lays behind Trump and Leon is so bad you won’t be able to react. That’s coming from a guy who was raised next to wealth. These people are BAD.