• OrangeSlice@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Without a socialist party (as in, completely purged and free of all bourgeois influence), there’s isn’t a whole lot worth voting for at the federal level. Democrats repeatedly show that they are incapable of resisting the Republicans and take L’s constantly (see here).

    I encourage everyone to instead organize with local political orgs that can eventually build this power. The DSA being the largest currently available (and just as flawed as the other options one may have, ofc)

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      If you don’t feel it’s worth keeping as many Rs out of Federal roles, then no amount of examples are going to change your mind.

      You can’t ignore the federal level because the Dems aren’t liberal enough.

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        Yeah just fixed that, “see here” was meant to refer to this student debt situation in the OP

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          Damn, I was hoping for a well documented compendium of Democrat L’s that have been taken because they’re too cowardly to stand up for their constituents.

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        I agree with your assesment of the DSA, but our audience here isn’t ready for that. I want them to get into the DSA where we can continue trashing on them until they do something more useful.

        They aren’t going to go from defending Democratic Party failures to Maoist Third-Worldist guerilla fighters (the correct sect of socialists, of course) overnight.