#frankly if I were OP I’d rather be called a psyop instead of a useful idiot

[armchairsoapbox]

You vote for your ideal candidate in the primary, you vote in the general to limit the damage.

You get the Dems to move leftward by showing up in the primaries and making sure folks who care about your priorities — including fighting fascism — get elected and funded and have ground support within the Dem party. Go campaign, knock on doors, write and call your representatives, protest. You guys know you supposedly have all these civil rights for a reason right?

Also I don’t know “never take any actual meaningful action” maybe vote Dem anyway because one side is standing up for abortion and reproductive rights and not trying to criminalise trans folks out of existence, trying to protect unions instead of bosses, trying to fight big monopolies via antitrust instead of being all pally with them, lowering the fucking price of insulin and boosting Medicare instead of lining the pockets of pharma companies and insurers, etc. etc.

That doesn’t look like doing nothing to me.

Stop substituting hare-brained cynicism for actual thought.

Post that will get me labelled a psyop but honestly the moment that a party realizes that "you might not like us but you have no choice but to vote for us because otherwise the fascists win" is an effective way to rake in votes it practically ensures that they'll never take any actual meaningful action against the fascism problem. They gotta keep the fascists around bro they're their electoral strategy.