Vote for the change you want to see.
The Republican party got remade because trumpists showed up and outvoted the party elites. No reason it can’t happen for the Left except for laziness and apathy.
If all the progressives furious about the state of affairs now had shown up for Sanders in 2016, I doubt we’d be in this hellish timeline. Sadly, he needed the young progressive vote to show up.
What was the purpose of this thread? To shout at anyone who complains about anything ever with “well why didn’t you vote?”, as if none of us did?
Frankly, I’ve seen a lot of stupid “the Dems are evil too” nonsense here, I’ve seen a lot of complaints about the parties being the same and other nonsense.
The point of this meme and thread is to remind people that the choice between Harris and trump is entirely because the progressive wing doesn’t show up to vote in the primaries while the moderates do. Some do vote but not enough. And frankly, if you break it down by demographic, it’s the youth/young middle age that don’t show up and get crushed by the elderly who vote.
BUT amidst all the complaints, I never see anyone say “damn, if only more of us had voted in the primaries.” And if we had, we wouldn’t be in this mess.
Far from it. There are a lot more factors at play that prop our two party system up, and allow the people in power in those parties to put their thumb on the scale in order to favor their candidates.