Post #1629504

2026-03-13 02:31 UTC

@benroyce @fathermcgruder Leftists didn’t like Hillary in 2016 or Kamala in 2024…see the pattern? These were all close elections. If we had won even 1 of them, everyone’s lives would have been better, and leftists would have had more space to push for change. Now we are fighting to survive. And millions of people all over the globe are dead who would still be alive. Voting is harm reduction at worst, transformative at best. There’s nothing evil about reducing harm.2/

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@jbluespruce@mstdn.social 2026-03-13 02:45

@benroyce @fathermcgruder After 50 years of activism and all of these disappointments, I have stopped looking to electoral politics as the main focus for transformative change. That comes from organizing in communities. Forcing elected officials to do the right thing. If you vote for the right people, they’re more likely to give in to the demands of communities, or do the least to block them. So I vote for the best possible available candidate and keep organizing. 3/

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@mastodonmigration@mastodon.online 2026-03-13 05:23

@jbluespruce@mstdn.social @benroyce@mastodon.social @fathermcgruder@jorts.horse Yup. Great observation. The right keeps running the same playbook to divide the left, and it works almost every time.

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@reflex@retrogaming.social 2026-03-13 13:10

@jbluespruce@mstdn.social @benroyce@mastodon.social @fathermcgruder@jorts.horse It's too bad the party does not consider the left worth courting, and that they'd rather lose general elections than nominate candidates even marginally further to the left.

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