Post #1268389

2026-04-12 20:55 UTC

@dedicto I've also been thinking a lot about how many crucial special elections have been overwhelmingly blue, even though the regieme could have focused on supressing them. How will it be when they have to put their resources and focus into a whole nationwide election night when they can't even suppress the first lady from throwing their Epstein-related PR into a tailspin? My worries are more that the blue wave success will be underwhelming in action. We need some real bulldogs in our primaries.

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@dedicto@zeroes.ca 2026-04-12 21:13

@cyberwitch People on the Left tend to overfocus on the possibility that an authoritarian regime could completely suppress voting or completely fake election results. Well, they COULD, but it’s significant that #Orbán DIDN'T. Complete electoral fakery is not a free operation. For one thing, it can convince people that electoral politics is truly useless, and thus set the stage for a violent #revolution. Orbán didn't want to end up with his head on a pike. OTOH you're quite right: one problem with electoral opposition to #dictatorship is that the winners often disappoint. In the #USA I keep reminding people that it’s not just the Republicans who are our enemies; so are most of the Democrats. The public needs to understand that, and insist (for example, in the primaries) on radicalism as the only viable alternative to oppression.

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