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We'll have a long memory as things get worse for working class Americans, minorities and women
(lemmy.world)
this post was submitted on 12 Oct 2024
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The more elections the far right loses, the more the overton window shifts to the left.
Democrats move further right to get votes from the center but when they win it'll go left trust me bro
They go to the center when they lose. If they don't lose, they don't need to go to the center to find voters. You can see my other comment, they've only had all 3 houses for 4 out of the last 24 years.
It's the left's fault for not feeling motivated to vote for a center-right party, they'll become even more right if we don't vote for them. Progressive candidates are dumb and unpopular.
So stay home/throw away your vote, I'm sure they'll realize their mistake and go to the left any decade now to chase those reliable voters.
they don't have to, let the whole thing collapse. Fascism never lasts long
Yeah, I'm sure the people who suffer and die under the fascist regime will be comforted by the fact it probably won't last long.
Too bad you'll find Nazis right along with you cheering on the rise of fascism, so I think your opinion can be safely discarded.
Yeah it's too bad the average person isn't doing anything about it
I honestly don't know what point you're trying to get at. In any case, if the left wants to be effective, they have to vote for Dems. Because, again, when they lose they go to the center to find voters.
seems like if the left wants to be effective at this point it has to go far beyond voting
The death grip the Evangelical, ethno-state, GOP has created for its self, proves that voting locally for change, and voting in the "lesser" evil, in the presidential election, works. This was their strategy, only the GOP for the presidency, then, on the local levels, they spent most of their time getting people to vote them into smaller positions of power, especially judicial ones. Over the past 40 years they have entrenched themselves into so many voting districts, so many courts, so many sheriff's offices, etc., that, even being the minority, they exercise power much greater than their numbers. During this time, they kept moving those local offerings further, and further right. So now we are seeing a significant amount of governors, and senators, that are full blown fascist/theocratic.
If we lock in the Dems federally, and vote progressives locally, we can accomplish the same. Especially if we focus on local voting reforms that are different styles of voting, that allow for more breathing room of third parties. The proof is that the far right theocrats did just this with the GOP.
This, but unironically.