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The neolibs are too far right. The tankies are doing whatever that is. Where's the space for the people who want fully-automated-luxury-gay-space-communism, but realize that it's gonna take a while and there are lots of steps between now and then? Here. This is that space.
Here, people should endeavor to discuss and devise practical, actionable leftist action. Vote lesser evil while you build grassroots coalitions. Unionize your workplace. Participate in SRAs. Build cohesion your local community. Educate the proletariat.
This is a place for practical people to develop practical plans to implement stable, incremental improvement.
If you're dead-set on drumming up all 18,453 True Leftists® into spontaneous Revolution, go somewhere else. The grown ups are talking.
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-1. Don't be a dick. Racism, sexism, other assorted bigotries, you know the drill. At least try to default to mutually respectful discussion. We're all on the same side here, unless you aren't, in which case kindly leave.
-2. Don't be a tankie. Yes I'm sure you have an extensive knowledge of century-old theory. There's been a century of history since then. Things didn't shake out as expected, maybe consider the possibility that a different angle of attack might be more effective in light of new data.
-3. Be practical. No one on the left benefits from counterproductive actions. This is a space informed by, not enslaved to, ideology. Promoting actions that are fundamentally untenable in the system in question, because they fulfill a sense of ideological purity, is a bad look. Don't do that.
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So who do you think the 10 million people are that voted for Biden in 2020 but not Harris are?
Do you think that they are leftists who refused to vote? Because if that is true, then the Democrats ABSOLUTELY needed their support and should have done everything they could to court that group instead of the couple dozen old Bush supporters that don't like Trump, such as the Cheneys.
Do you think that they are just normal, politically illiterate people who saw their quality of life plummet the past 4 years? Why didn't the Dems do more to help them and get them to take time off from their second job to fo vote? Why was the Democrats message fail to resonate with them?
Do you think that they were put off by Kamala's race/gender? So then why did the Democrats force her as the candidate instead of holding an actual primary? Was she just a glass cliff candidate so that they could run the same terrible campaign and just blame the voters instead?
Whatever way you want to slice it, the Democrats lost in 2024 because they have zero idea what their voters want/need. They only care about their corporate donors. The Democrats keep loosing elections and you keep blaming voters instead of the party that keeps loosing.
This may be a shock, but more than one actor can be at fault at once. Yes, really.
People who refuse to vote against literal, explicit, clearly stated fascism are at fault for literal fascism winning elections.
The Dem Party, by being varying degrees of incompetent and self-absorbed, is also at fault for failing to win over voters who don't give a fuck how many minorities die.
Sorry that you feel that welcoming fascists into power has no moral implications.