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Sadly, I feel there are still too many bigots and sexists in the US who cannot bring themselves to vote for a woman, esp. one who isn't 'white enough'. That, piled on top of the 'establishment' Dem factions that will do everything possible to subvert a campaign... which will let the right-wingers/fascists drive right up the middle again.
Feel free to prove me wrong, USA. Please.
Copy paste from elsewhere in the thread.
You seem well-meaning, but the racism/sexism card is way overplayed at this point in the game. The two examples DNC sympathisers point to for why an AOC run is a bad idea both lost not because they were women, but because they were utterly terrible politicians. I wasn't around for Hillary so I can't go into too much detail, but Harris specifically did her utmost best to destroy every single ounce of goodwill she had. And as for the racism, well, America did overwhelmingly elect Obama in 2008. Even on the far right you see MAGA elect women and minority politicians they agree with (see: MTG), so there's no way the everyone left of Reagan coalition wouldn't be able to elect AOC due to sexism. It's just a complete and utter non-issue.
Except when Obama was elected the right lost their ever loving minds. And Fox went off the deep end. The entire right wing propaganda machine has gone nuts for the last 18 years and unfortunately it worked. Acting like it's currently the environment of 2008 is blind.
As a leftist I have a completely different take.
Obama's campaign made me realize what it was like to have a politician work for my vote. All that "hope and change" rhetoric actually worked on me. Somewhere in his eight years in office I realized he was full of shit but it gave me optimism for the future. That optimism blossomed as I listened to Sanders speeches.
So when Hillary Clinton came along and started setting herself in opposition to Sanders and ultimately defeating him I realized Hillary Clinton and the entire Democratic party think they can just assume I'll support them so long as they run against a Republican who is much much worse.
They're wrong.
Republicans haven't gotten stronger. The Democratic party has intentionally weakened itself because rather than serving the American people they want to serve corporations, Israel and their own egos.
As a vulnerable minority (trans) being targeted for active genocide by the Right, I really wish that WAS enough for Democrats to get elected
And I'm sure people struggling to put food on the table for their families while watching our government pay for Israeli lifestyles (and their genocide) wish the same from you.
Well they're definitely not getting it from the Republicans
And you aren't getting what you want from Republicans either.
It's time for actual leftists.
A real leftist would prefer incremental change over sacrificing thousands with "Accelerationism"
This is incorrect.
I've never witnessed conservatives rally around anyone like this in my life. The Republican party is currently netting wins they've been trying to get for decades. They own our media. They're violating our Constitution with impunity.
The Republican party is absolutely stronger than ever.
Now, they might be overplaying their hand and that might come back to bite them in the ass, but that's not what's happening right now.
That didn't respond to anything I wrote. The right wing media went nuts and it worked. For 18 years. We can't act like those 18 years of propaganda didn't change anything because it did.
But anyway to respond to what you wrote, I think the best way to address this is you're looking at the parties, while I'm looking at the votes.
Hilary said she'd a map room to (read, go to war on) fight climate change. The left never came out. Biden went to good old politics. Won. Kamala relied on woman's rights. The left never came out. Guess what will happen next time? They will not rely on the left. They will go after the center. The center that actually shows up. (Also see my other comment.)
This completely misses the point that Kamala didn’t win a primary. You can’t say “didn’t get support” because she wasn’t “the candidate” in the first plac You’re working really hard to tell this thread why voting is pointless
I wonder why
Me: vote.
You: why are you telling people not to vote?
Unreal.