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Electoralism is the least you can do. It accomplishes next-to-nothing. So you may as well vote for the best candidate. Not the "most-viable" candidate in your extremely imperfect understanding of US voting trends, not the one you can post on facebook about how your vote "matters," but the literal best one that doesn't support capitalism. Everything else you can possibly do is much more important and has greater impact. Not voting for capitalism costs you nothing, you will never be punished for not voting for capitalism, no one is worse off for you not supporting capitalism, it is the least you can do. Yet you can't even manage to do that, because the status quo is what you support. The genocide is what you support. Capitalism is what you support. Even within an imperfect system where you are free not to support those things, you will still choose to support them.
As for local work I volunteer at a workers association. They run no candidates, they accept no cash for services, they are volunteer based, do grass roots work, hold workshops on theory, provide legal, dental, and medical benefits to their members. They have nothing to do with who you are voting for, and the only political help you can give them is trying to end capitalism. Yet you won't even do that, even when it costs you nothing. You are more interested in voting for "student loan forgiveness for pell grants recipients who run a business in a disadvantaged area for 3-years." You don't know why you support that, you don't even know that is what you support, but you don't care. And that is the actual problem.
Sorry comrade, you've got it exactly backwards. It's so dumb it makes you look like an agent provocateur deliberately trying to diffuse leftist action. Electoralism is good at one thing: select from a binary choice. A smart person uses that little bit of power to try to secure more fertile ground to "do grass roots work, hold workshops on theory, provide legal, dental, and medical benefits to their members.”
Exactly. Voting for someone who says they want to end capitalism does not end capitalism. Especially if that person won't win anyway.
If you want to end capitalism, you have to realize it is a deeply entrenched, centuries old institution. You're not going to overturn it in an election. You're going to overturn it with decades of grassroots work, and it's easier to do that when leftists aren't being thrown in camps.
Look at DSA, they're probably the most reasonable third party, and even Mamdani is running as a Democrat. They understand that BNMW is a temporary, but crucial, strategy for the current political climate. If we want a better political climate, it starts with direct action, not spoiler votes. Spoiler votes don't end capitalism, they prolong it.