The thing that concerns me, is where does it stop? This is something I’ve been thinking about all through the election cycle, and even now. I understand the idea of voting for lesser evil. And that’s exactly what I did. But when you vote for the lesser evil, you are showing your support of that evil. You are sending a message that it’s an acceptable level of evil. That it’s tolerable as long as the alternative is something worse. And it allows the Democrats to keep shifting further right little by little.
We already saw that with Harris campaigning on having “the most lethal military”, and talking about how she’s going to continue building Trump’s wall. (Something Biden did, but at least wasn’t campaigning on, and acting like it’s a selling point). Maybe the next democratic candidate will be even more anti immigrant, but still pro lgbtqia+. So we have to vote for them over the Republican candidate. Then the next dem candidate is only pro lgb, but anti trans. Democrats were already talking about how Harris’s support of trans people lost her the election. When she never even openly campaigned on any trans issues as far as I saw.
And we can elect the lesser of two evils and then protest and send a message about the issues that we don’t support them on. But at the end of the day, what incentive do they have to change? What are you going to do about it? Not vote for them and get the greater evil?
Obviously voting 3rd party just splits the left leaning candidates votes and allows the right to win. But unconditional support of the democratic party seems like it just allows them to take a leisurely stroll towards the right every election. I don’t have an actual answer. But the idea of continuously voting for the lesser evil as the lesser evil becomes incrementally more evil doesn’t really sit well with me.
If you want them to change, run for office and become the DNC. Actually turn out and get other leftists to turn out and vote. Coalesce with democrats and prioritize defeating Republicans over screaming about how bad the DNC is so you can work internally to get your agendas passed. As it is, the energy I get from leftists is a temper tantrum throwing child who is mad their parents won’t buy them crisps at the store. Screaming and yelling doesn’t make mummy and daddy more likely to buy you the thing you want. It makes them want to leave you kicking and screaming on the ground while they continue their shopping.
If you want things to change you have to become the adult and enact the change yourself. The DNC is not your parent or some singular entity that you need to convince to give into your demands with your tantrums. It’s a political body filled with people, mostly old people who aren’t impressed with your tantrums because young people aren’t engaging in politics.
You have to work your way up and replace those old people and that means running and winning local elections.
Stop being lazy and hoping someone will do it for you.
The thing that concerns me, is where does it stop? This is something I’ve been thinking about all through the election cycle, and even now. I understand the idea of voting for lesser evil. And that’s exactly what I did. But when you vote for the lesser evil, you are showing your support of that evil. You are sending a message that it’s an acceptable level of evil. That it’s tolerable as long as the alternative is something worse. And it allows the Democrats to keep shifting further right little by little.
We already saw that with Harris campaigning on having “the most lethal military”, and talking about how she’s going to continue building Trump’s wall. (Something Biden did, but at least wasn’t campaigning on, and acting like it’s a selling point). Maybe the next democratic candidate will be even more anti immigrant, but still pro lgbtqia+. So we have to vote for them over the Republican candidate. Then the next dem candidate is only pro lgb, but anti trans. Democrats were already talking about how Harris’s support of trans people lost her the election. When she never even openly campaigned on any trans issues as far as I saw.
And we can elect the lesser of two evils and then protest and send a message about the issues that we don’t support them on. But at the end of the day, what incentive do they have to change? What are you going to do about it? Not vote for them and get the greater evil?
Obviously voting 3rd party just splits the left leaning candidates votes and allows the right to win. But unconditional support of the democratic party seems like it just allows them to take a leisurely stroll towards the right every election. I don’t have an actual answer. But the idea of continuously voting for the lesser evil as the lesser evil becomes incrementally more evil doesn’t really sit well with me.
If you want them to change, run for office and become the DNC. Actually turn out and get other leftists to turn out and vote. Coalesce with democrats and prioritize defeating Republicans over screaming about how bad the DNC is so you can work internally to get your agendas passed. As it is, the energy I get from leftists is a temper tantrum throwing child who is mad their parents won’t buy them crisps at the store. Screaming and yelling doesn’t make mummy and daddy more likely to buy you the thing you want. It makes them want to leave you kicking and screaming on the ground while they continue their shopping.
If you want things to change you have to become the adult and enact the change yourself. The DNC is not your parent or some singular entity that you need to convince to give into your demands with your tantrums. It’s a political body filled with people, mostly old people who aren’t impressed with your tantrums because young people aren’t engaging in politics.
You have to work your way up and replace those old people and that means running and winning local elections.
Stop being lazy and hoping someone will do it for you.