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"You can't vote for who actually represents you! You have to vote for your oppressor because if you don't they will make me suffer! So, throw yourself under the bus to protect my comfort because I refuse to have solidarity with those who are currently oppressed by the status quo."
The establishment party you keep trying to force people to vote for are already sacrificing the weak and vulnerable to maintain the system of capitalist-imperialist oppression. The party is the one sacrificing them by refusing to meet the demands of the people they are supposed to be representing.
The only (legal) leverage over the ruling class the people have is their vote for who to put in power. If you prove to always give them power regardless of if they meet the obligations of their representative position then you have thus abandoned any leverage you had to incentivize them to change.
The system is a broken one that is set up to ensure that the ruling oligarchy can continually oppress the working class so long as they threaten the middle with a "greater evil". And it will continue as is until people stop letting perfect be the enemy of good by waiting for the perfect time to change their habits and actually vote for someone who truly represents them instead of continuing to abdicate all their political autonomy into the hands of the lesser evil.
Right, so weeks out from the midterms your suggestion is… to withhold your vote from one party to send some sort of scolding message, while letting the pedophile and his army of racist goons continue to round up minorities and threaten to deport elected officials they disagree with?
No one is asking you to throw yourself under the bus, just to realise that we are all, globally, under the bus already. Some people are just trying to get their head out from under the wheels for the slim hope of dragging their mangled bodies out of the way of the next car.
LMAO!
They're not our representatives. They never were. They're the representatives of the ruling class.
Each election there is a set of choices on the table, usually only bad ones. But one of them always included extra suffering for minorities. It's your duty in good solidarity with the minorities to vote against that.
If you want better choices you need to fight for a new table. That gets done every other day that isn't election day. 99% of your time spent on getting a new table, like the French. 1% of your time protecting the vulnerable through harm reduction.
"Every other day besides election day"
Yet libs yell at anyone that dares to criticize or demand more action than just standing on roadsides on a single weekend every 8 months. It's always "you can't say that now!!! You'll discourage people from supporting our party!!!" even when the next election is over a year away.
I don't know what to tell you there. You're saying that people who think we should change the system from within get mad when you try to change the system from outside of it?
It feels like you're just describing being a leftist in a world of neo-fascists and neo-liberals.
I didn't say voting wins the libs over.... I said being a revolutionary leftist doesn't free you from voting. If you want to improve material conditions you have to fight with every tool you have. Voting is quick and easy and improves material conditions for minorities Neo-fascists want to oppress.
Libs are not going to be on our side in this. They're part of the oppressive system we want to dismantle. A part that's just as hard to overcome as the fascists.
Besides, making progress on a revolutionary front also forces libs to make concessions which only improve the outcomes of voting.
Fuck fascists and fuck the libs. We don't vote lib because they're good, we do it because it's an easy way to limit oppression against marginalised communities while we work on anticapitalist pursuits like community building, mutual aid, and other more assertive strategies as the opportunity arises.