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This is privilege. Meanwhile POC here, we're being dragged back to the 1950s under Trump I and II. Similar for women, LGBT, etc. He's speedrunning imperialism. Stopping the MAGA agenda should be paramount. I'm not thrilled about Platner but I am willing to take a chance with him over the perpetually concerned Collins who aligns MAGA when it counts. Unionizing, attending city council meetings, advocating for prison reform, etc. should accompany voting, not replace it.
Yeah, so I'm trans, and we too are under serious threat, not just from MAGA. It's not privileged to recognize that mainstream Democratic party opinion is that trans people should be thrown under the bus to appease some mythical centrist voter.
Consider the inverse, that it is a priviledged position to be able to hem and haw over every election in a rapidly decaying pseudo democracy, as opposed to doing the very difficult work of workplace, tenant, or mutual aid organizing to secure immediate material necessities.
Welcome to the transactional real world. If you make it a point to not show up, politicians will not waste political capital on you. Also, allies are imperfect. It is only the left that has trouble seeing this and intentionally conflate those who don't ace purity tests with the opposition. Meanwhile, those before us who got us rights we take for granted had to whip up support with much less desirable people who held much more regressive views.
Oh stop. Voting is a very simple process you're distorting into some sort of crisis. Also voting and being active in one's community is not an either/or.