A growing number of Senate Democrats appear open to making it harder for migrants to seek asylum in order to secure Republican support for aiding Ukraine and Israel.
This is what the democrats stand for. Unlimited funding for the MIC and border-control, but social issues are not a priority.
Stop voting for the parties of Capital.
Stop voting for the parties of Capital.
What’s your proposed alternative? Like it or not, there’s two viable parties in this country. If you’re a progressive voter and choose not to vote for the democrat because they’re not doing enough for you, you’re effectively voting for the republican.
Vote third party in spite of you lot, let this settler-colonial nightmare of a country burn if the faux-progressives you present can’t become actually progressive, basically. I care infinitely more about the billions outside Amerika than the 200 million settlers within it. Do better. Earn it. Et cetera.
you’re effectively voting for the republican
No, that’s only somewhat true if it’s a tight election. If your area leans heavily to one side or the other, your vote for a third party signals that neither major party candidate is acceptable. If those votes get high enough to start impacting elections, they’ll change their policies/candidates to attract new voters.
AFAIK, most people live in areas where one party is expected to win. So if that describes you, vote your conscience. If you live in an area with tight races, you may want to choose the less bad among the two major candidates. In both cases, push for voting reform, ideally something like Approval or STAR voting. That way you can vote your conscience and fall back to the major party candidate you prefer.
Let’s be honest, “signals” mean exactly two things. Jack and shit. A viable progressive is just not gonna appear on thoughts and prayers because someone signals hard enough. The only way to move the needle is by choosing the viable party that doesn’t actively campaign on the notion of eradicating “vermin”.
In a functional society, we would have options like ranked choice, but functional is not a great word to explain the current situation in the U.S. So you bite the bullet, and make the less evil choice. Then you do it over and over again until the party that is actively trying to destroy democracy no longer exists, and you can potentially make effective voting reform.
There are two ways to fix this, slowly with every election over potentially decades, or quickly. And doing it quickly almost certainly involves people in the streets and ugliness on a scale you really cannot comprehend. But no amount of “signaling” is gonna work because honestly close to half the electorate just doesn’t fucking care.
