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What's the alternative to putting in the work before or after the election? Your alternative is to just give up to nihilistic hopelessness?
My policy preferences are not reflected in the current two party system, nor are they wanted by the current system, and I benefit far beyond what should be allowed by the current system due to my outward physical characteristics.
I tried very hard to help build dual power but it didn't really work out
So honestly I don't know what your point is, because electoralism doesn't work.
Lol I assume this is SRA related I recognize all of that.
Keep trying friend.
Yup. SRA.
I don't think Stewart's point implies electorialism. I think his point is inclusive of it but it seems he pretty clearly is calling for direct action in people's lives over relying on politicians.
I'd like a candidate born sometime after the Jackson administration
Agreed? And? I don't think Stewart is advocating for electoralism here.
Do you feel like politicians in the U.S. really give a shit what people think? There seems to be a growing consensus that aiding and abetting genocide is bad but the only thing Butcher Biden's admin is concerned with is that it looks bad and they need to rethink their PR strategy, not you know, stopping the aiding and abetting of a genocide because they're little Zionist freaks.
Stewart isn't advocating for electorialism here. Of anything he's arguing for direct action.
Execute the entire political class of the US empire and make the corporations tremble?
That sounds like putting in work...
Democracy is not a cycle of biannual elections separated by periods of hibernation
Agreed, that seems to be Jon Stewart's entire point...
I think you would be hard-pressed to get a positive course of action out of his ideology beyond merely saying things. If it's not obvious, that is not a good way to handle the problem that is neoliberal bourgeois "democracy", which is content to let you say whatever you want because it will still have the last word and a monopoly on violence.