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I am worried about this entire dynamic.
So from now until infinity the Dems will (rightly) say Repubs are an existential threat, and that's all the reason you need to vote D. Then the Dems no longer need to aspire to anything for their voters, promise anything to their voters, and as long as the Dem voting base remains scared shitless, the Dems are no longer accountable.
The world that this creates is unappealing to say the least.
Anyone saying I just need to wait is going to be ignored.
Also I don't want to protest in sweltering climate changed heat while my foes fuck me over from their comfortably air-conditioned rooms.
I need strategies where my foes suffer more than I.
You may have heard of Thomas Jefferson?
If the Dems no longer have to compete with Republicans during generals, the focus needs to be on primarying bad candidates with better Dems too, we shouldn't just be pushing generals every four years. We need to be getting out the vote for primaries and midterms as well
And if the DNC decides to cancel the primaries?
I vote in every election. Where I live some positions just have an uncontested (R) running.
Yes, we can't be complacent and let Dems, or whoever is opposing the Right, sit comfortably on their stacks of cash. This country needs real change or it will fall.
That's exactly what I fear. The strategy to vote D solely to stop the existentially threatening R will in my opinion at best work for two more cycles. Then the public face of the Democratic Party will be ruined beyond repair. Not only that, but the public face of our electoral system itself will be ruined beyond repair.
This only postpones fascism for two cycles, but at an insanely high cost to the public institutions.
If the DNC decides to cancel all the primaries, then there are NO polite and civil methods left to get any accountability from the system.
We are NOT solving our fascism problem by simply voting D. We're rolling out red carpet for fascism in two cycles.
The only way I see that changing is voting locally and supporting new candidates with good ideas trying to hurdle the obstacles of entry. Its hard, and there's definitely no immediate solution. I think thats partly by design in a democracy.
A better democracy would not have privately controlled ballot access by a duopoly of RNC and DNC.
And a better democracy would not rely almost exclusively on billionaire-owned media, owned by 6 giant corps.
The founders loathed the idea of political parties.
I'm not going to say we don't have a democracy, because I do appreciate what little of it we do have. But we must do better and soon. If there is no civil way forward we will have to be impolite.