I’m not condoning the game as it currently exists but we do have to live in the aftermath. Given that fact, there are optimal ways to play the game, like voting for the lesser evil when the alternative is clearly much worse.
I don’t think anyone who abstained from voting for Harris in 2024 made the right move, but I empathize with anyone who became fed up with the game and just sat out or tried to use their third party vote or something to send a message. There are ways to improve the game but they are, admittedly, very difficult to pull off and it can be demoralizing when it doesn’t work out, over and over. What I think they don’t understand is that the Dem leadership won’t get the kind of message that people sent in 2024 - leadership is too isolated and the message was too muddled.
Big, organized grassroots movements, like Mamdani’s in NYC are what is needed. The party leadership will need to be dragged kicking and screaming, possibly primaried and ousted, for things to get better. It’s way too easy to be the less-conservative-billionaire-funded minority opposition party and just campaign on that while only marginally pushing for change that the billionaires can agree on.
I’m not condoning the game as it currently exists but we do have to live in the aftermath. Given that fact, there are optimal ways to play the game, like voting for the lesser evil when the alternative is clearly much worse.
I don’t think anyone who abstained from voting for Harris in 2024 made the right move, but I empathize with anyone who became fed up with the game and just sat out or tried to use their third party vote or something to send a message. There are ways to improve the game but they are, admittedly, very difficult to pull off and it can be demoralizing when it doesn’t work out, over and over. What I think they don’t understand is that the Dem leadership won’t get the kind of message that people sent in 2024 - leadership is too isolated and the message was too muddled.
Big, organized grassroots movements, like Mamdani’s in NYC are what is needed. The party leadership will need to be dragged kicking and screaming, possibly primaried and ousted, for things to get better. It’s way too easy to be the less-conservative-billionaire-funded minority opposition party and just campaign on that while only marginally pushing for change that the billionaires can agree on.