My grandma does love me

So what are you suggesting we do differently? From where I stand I don’t see current tactics are working.

DSA is shrinking & other left orgs have a few thousand members each on a good day. We’re looking at maybe if you stretch 100k leftists that join an org? That’s a Taylot Swift concert. Not nothing, but not enough for a revolution or to be taken seriously in most parts of the country.

I have some ideas in an effort post I made a while back. Who knows what will work? I just believe that the current tactics are being done out of inertia more than strategic thinking.

I’m going to assume you are arguing in good faith. Around 2016 I would have been in your shoes. I was a Dem and a “true believer”. I used to work for the party, literally paid to harass old people to get them to come to a field office to make calls for, 🤮🤢, Hillary.

I used to be you, but then I saw “my” party continue to either cast shitty votes or make excuse after excuse for why they can’t ever play hardball like the Republicans do. Thanks to their incompetence or Malice (prob depends on who we’re talking about) I looked for alternatives, found the “real” left and now I’m here.

Sure and I want to agree with you! As I’ve said in other comments last week, I believe our culture puts us in a position where it is much harder to get Americans to even listen vs. Places like China.

I believe Chinese culture is more geared toward community, helping your neighbors, looking out for each other, etc. Same for many places. Not in America. We are hyper-individualist to an absurd degree. Just drive down any stretch of highway to see how selfish the average driver is. See how many crashes we have because people have no respect for others on the road. Then walk down our streets and see all of the litter, all of the dog shit that isn’t being picked up, etc. We want to be left alone and we don’t care about others at all. We are greedy, resentful, selfish, etc.

You may say that is a product of Capitalism, but I believe there’s more to it here. Even among other capitalist countries I don’t see the amount of carelessness present in everyday life. Ex: In Japan there are norms around eating in public, taking your trash with you, giving space in public, and so on.

Idealistic and hopeless is OK as long as not much is at stake. Usually both parties agree on giving ever larger bags of money to the military, continuing to meddle in other nations’ business, etc. The unwritten agreement was things would stay the same here, bad but not unbearable, social progress would happen at a slow enough pace to stick, and the white cul-de-sac voters would be able to have their comfy wages / petition bourgeois lifestyles.

That deal is over. Now abortion is gone, LGBT rights under attack, racism against non-whites is growing worse. Even the comfortable white class is starting to feel the effects of high prices, worse weather, a bungled pandemic, etc. Layoffs everywhere. No one who doesn’t already own a home can buy one. Employment more precarious than ever thanks to the 1-2 punch of AI and gig jobs… The treats aren’t flowing as freely. This is the time to act!

And of course Democrats, like you said, aren’t going to do anything about it. I’m not supporting the party that cannot do the bare minimum to help people. They were always a capitalist party but before Trump at least they did enough to get us gay marriage and other small social consessions. Now we’re not even getting that!

I hope they crash and burn so they can learn their lesson. Serve the people or get out of the way of people who will!

So you’re just going to accept Republicans always get their judges and Democrats never get them?

Why don’t Democrats block the Republican judges?

There’s always going to be some excuse stopping the “good guys”. Ask yourself why that is.

We’ve done the polite explaining for decades and it’s gotten us nowhere. What worked in China doesn’t work in burgerland

We should still fight at those levels. Jam up the works by running unabashed Socialists for every school board, state legislative seat, etc. Force them to fight for every inch and do a full-court press on the fuckers.

I want us to start crashing local Dem party meetings too. No peace for genocide enablers

I’m already on the vote plane! I’m just going to skip the “main course” and choose more important things like which soda I want (local elections). It’s not like team chicken is literally hiring people to organize against Steak (third parties), nor does team chicken even want competitive primaries as we saw after the pro-genocide chicken defeated less-pro-genocide Bowman this week. I mean, those cluckers claim to want “democracy” and then insult people when the voters get to choose between more than one chicken 🐔!

God this analogy sucks.

Most of those ghouls are old enough to remember Carter in 80. They are probably thinking about that right now.

Or we take over the plane and serve actually decent food for once.

You don’t have to defend this system. The constitution is F-Tier slave owner defending garbage. Let’s get rid of it

“Who killed the chicken?”

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But if you don’t fund the Nazis and dead kids with your labor, then YOU are the one who gets to starve to death 🙃

Great system

Sounds right to me.

It’s like a Taylor Swift concert but based