#Get people to form and join unions first ffs

[traegorn]

This post is pretty peak liberal nonsense.

It's interesting that this is always the go to -- calling any leftist who disagrees with you a "liberal." If you want to know why certain forms of leftists continue to fail to communicate or advance their political message, it's because the instant someone disagrees with them, they go for the insult.

Great coalition building there. I'm sure your purity test will somehow help.

A good chunk of that is just making up fanfiction about my politics, so we won't bother with most of it. While this person is blindly promoting voting third party, we don't need to go into how the international Green Party has denounced Jill Stein's run (or the fact that Stein's running mate is wildly transphobic and against female bodied people's bodily autonomy).

And the grand fucking irony? If you read that whole thing to the end they don't even disagree with me. The whole point of the post was that Trump is an existential threat, and in a two party system we are stuck with two outcomes -- so we need to stop Trump and elect Harris. I then said we should focus our activism at other levels of government... and then they said they're going to focus their activism at the other levels of government.

They wrote a whole post to shit on me, and then said they did exactly what I was arguing for for the exact reason I was arguing for it.

This is the thing with the "I won't vote for Harris" supposed leftists.

None of them will tell you how allowing Trump to be elected helps.

Because they don't have an answer.

Because they don't really care about anything other than how they personally feel.

Actual leftism involves making pragmatic moves. The public will for revolution doesn't exist, and we live in a two party system. If you want to fight that system, great. There are things like ranked choice voting and the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact we need to be fighting for. But those are fights that have to happen year round, at the state level, and not just in an election year.

And in the meanwhile, you vote defensively and strategically, in an attempt to save as many people as possible.

Saying you aren't voting for Harris isn't taking a stand against genocide. It's putting your head in the sand and admitting you care more about your own comfort than making a difference in the world.

Why aren't you getting involved in your local politics? Why aren't you running leftist candidates at a local level, so you can move them up in the system and eventually move the political discussion left. You want to know why politics have moved right? It's because the right wing has been doing that for decades.

Your refusal to participate won't save a single life.

It only means you're abandoning everyone else.