To be fair the people vote for leaders who are supposed to show them the way forward we don’t have that for the most part.
Honestly we have no good community leaders at all (for white leftists), they are bad at organizing, they are bad at messaging, they seem to always want to take over and grift money, it’s always get out and march (if you can… that’s ok if you can’t) meanwhile the other side organized an attempted fucking coup.
Like we need someone at Obamas level saying don’t pay federal taxes while they deny your rights and plunge us into war and march on DC/mara lago and here’s the address to the homes they stole from top military brass would be a shame to bother them.
And maybe a little “HEY THEY FUCKING SHOT YOUR ELECTED OFFICIALS, VOTE FOR ME AND I’LL MAKE SURE THEY ALL GO TO FUCKING JAIL!” would be a nice fucking start or even a little acknowledgement the election was fucking stolen.
First thing you need to do is make America a representative democracy. Throw that first past the post bullshit in the trash.
Then maybe the electoral collage.
Then maybe gerrymandering illegal.
The way your system works is all sorts of fucked up. And it’s fine for us here in Europe if it didn’t effect us, but the tribalistic thinking of “left vs right” without any gradient or nuance is starting to effect us over here too.
The problem is that even doing that isn’t simple. Both parties are captured by and cater to capital’s interests. The Democratic Party and the Republican Party both have 0 interest in changing away from first past the post because first past the post gets them elected and in power. It’s incredibly difficult to get anyone elected that is outside of either of those two parties because they will do everything in their power to challenge it. We’ve seen this most recently in the 2024 elections when the Dems were challenging Green Party candidates’ rights to even be on the ballot by taking them to court to contest their signatures and other procedural challenges. The Greens don’t have the pocket book to handle lawsuits, so this can effectively kill any local and bottom up candidate initiatives. It takes time to contend with these structures, which is why we’re just now seeing gains being made by Democratic Socialists like Mamdani in NYC. His election required years of organizing on the DSA’s part to build a party structure in NYC. Sometimes their best route to office has been through the Democratic party itself, like Mamdani, which comes with its own issues as well.
To be fair the people vote for leaders who are supposed to show them the way forward we don’t have that for the most part.
Honestly we have no good community leaders at all (for white leftists), they are bad at organizing, they are bad at messaging, they seem to always want to take over and grift money, it’s always get out and march (if you can… that’s ok if you can’t) meanwhile the other side organized an attempted fucking coup.
Like we need someone at Obamas level saying don’t pay federal taxes while they deny your rights and plunge us into war and march on DC/mara lago and here’s the address to the homes they stole from top military brass would be a shame to bother them.
And maybe a little “HEY THEY FUCKING SHOT YOUR ELECTED OFFICIALS, VOTE FOR ME AND I’LL MAKE SURE THEY ALL GO TO FUCKING JAIL!” would be a nice fucking start or even a little acknowledgement the election was fucking stolen.
First thing you need to do is make America a representative democracy. Throw that first past the post bullshit in the trash.
Then maybe the electoral collage.
Then maybe gerrymandering illegal.
The way your system works is all sorts of fucked up. And it’s fine for us here in Europe if it didn’t effect us, but the tribalistic thinking of “left vs right” without any gradient or nuance is starting to effect us over here too.
The problem is that even doing that isn’t simple. Both parties are captured by and cater to capital’s interests. The Democratic Party and the Republican Party both have 0 interest in changing away from first past the post because first past the post gets them elected and in power. It’s incredibly difficult to get anyone elected that is outside of either of those two parties because they will do everything in their power to challenge it. We’ve seen this most recently in the 2024 elections when the Dems were challenging Green Party candidates’ rights to even be on the ballot by taking them to court to contest their signatures and other procedural challenges. The Greens don’t have the pocket book to handle lawsuits, so this can effectively kill any local and bottom up candidate initiatives. It takes time to contend with these structures, which is why we’re just now seeing gains being made by Democratic Socialists like Mamdani in NYC. His election required years of organizing on the DSA’s part to build a party structure in NYC. Sometimes their best route to office has been through the Democratic party itself, like Mamdani, which comes with its own issues as well.