sakodak

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Anecdotal, but our chapter of the DSA (not radical enough for me, but it's what I've got around me) is growing rapidly. New member orientation has been standing-room-only since the election.

The Democratic party has just officially morphed into the Republican party of 30 years ago. They trotted out the Cheney's ffs.

Not like it matters. We're not voting our way out of this situation, the fascists won't let anyone take power back now that they have it. It's revolution or a technofeudal hellscape.

Ding. Both major parties have abandoned the working class, and a whole lot of people have given up on the system as a whole. Give a real choice that has a chance and people will turn up. But that means the politics-as-sports folks need to hang up their team colors, and that's only going to happen by spreading class consciousness. No war but class war.

Liberals are pro-capitalism, which is the ultimate mechanism for inequality.

"Neoliberalism" isn't a pejorative, it's a political philosophy that has dominated the Western world for about 50 years, though it has roots much further back. It is a philosophy embraced by both Republicans and Democrats. It's about privatization of services, lowering taxes, and deregulating corporations. It's why we have for profit healthcare in the US, for example.

Good, good. Let the hate flow through you. Come to the left side where we want to rid ourselves of the capitalist class entirely and stop trying to negotiate with them through their puppet political parties. You are so close, I feel it in the force.

I have problems with people who abstained. The hard thing is, how do you change voter behavior?

I didn't abstain. I voted for a candidate that didn't support genocide while living in a solidly oligarch controlled state. What you would probably call "throwing my vote away."

But no voter had a say in this past election. It was a struggle between the corporatist and oligarch branches of the capitalist class, and the oligarchs threw more money at buying the election.

That's it. No need to vote shame, regardless of if someone did or did not vote. It should be blatantly obvious by now that the Office of the President is (well, was) a rental. Now the oligarchs bought it from the corporatist landlords and plan to remodel and reside in it forever.

There is no war but class war. Nobody is coming to save us. We have to save ourselves. Organize. Let's make voting useful again.

Just so I understand, you'd rather wait around until the complete collapse of society rather than take five minutes to go vote, is that right?

Given this response, I'm guessing you read less than a paragraph in to my original response and decided you needed to wield your superior intellect and values and produce a "gotcha" response while not actually understanding what you were reading.

You don't actually own anything of value, like a house or a car, I take it.

I own a relatively large house and multiple cars. I have a wife and a dog and a daughter and a granddaughter. I have lots of completely unnecessary consumer goods. Likely I'm more well off than you. Just because I can play and succeed in the capitalist game doesn't mean I don't recognize it for the oppressive system that it is and sympathize with the people that didn't get as lucky as me.

You so badly want to pounce you have to build a straw man to dislike instead of trying to understand a perspective different from your own. You are a petty person.

What do you think a revolution is if not a collapse of the previous system?

Edit: also, it has already collapsed. That should have been evident in the 2016 primaries.