Post #617587

2026-03-03 09:12 UTC

Call me when you have an electable leftist candidate. I would certainly vote for them. This is exactly the problem. Everyone would! But the Democrats are never going to let a true leftist candidate be the presidential nominee, we saw that in 2016 where they transmuted Bernie Sander’s victory into Hillary Clinton’s defeat. Stop fucking lying to yourself, stop settling for these douches when we can actually push for real change. What it takes to start this journey is a willingness to admit that change is possible instead of the endless defeatism.

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@Hacksaw@lemmy.ca 2026-03-03 10:51

I get what you’re saying, but we need both of you, and we need you to stop fighting. We only win enough power to deal with fascism (which will kill millions at this rate) and eventually climate change (which is going to kill billions of people) if we use EVERY strategy available to us. Progressive like electing the best democrats we can, socialist like labour action, and radical like actually fighting an unjust system. But most importantly we have to stop fighting eachother. People like you need to hold their noses and vote at every election they can for the best candidate they can. People like wuffah will need to tolerate well targeted revolutionary action without publicly criticizing the left.

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