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In the leadup to an election is when there is maximum ability to influence the policies of the candidates. At no time before or after this period will any individual voter have more influence. Libs could have joined in with the uncommitted movement months ago and continually demanded an arms embargo on israel as a precondition for their votes. They could even have fucking lied and in their cowardly little hearts known that they were going to vote for the dems anyway. But no, even that small amount of effort was too much. Instead they immediately en masse announced their unconditional support for the dems and spent all their effort viciously attacking anybody who even mildly criticized their candidate. Absolutely useless dumb fucking crackers. I will not forgive them.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Neither Democrats or republicans that’s for sure.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 month ago

Fair enough, to answer your "what is to be done" question it is hard to say. Most people I know IRL are done with electoral politics even at the municipal level. But outside of that you run into the law very very quickly. Labor organization is a possible avenue that has seen growth. But the history of organized settler labor in the US does not give much optimism that it will be a force for radical change. So mostly people are just doing mutual aid networks, which with the generally awful conditions present in the US is basically just charity with no mutuality to be expected. Every meeting I have with people the same question comes up: what is to be done? Nobody has yet cracked the code of how to function as a leftist in the imperial core, for any empire really. Especially a settler state running a FIRE economy (Finance/Insurance/Real Estate) with all actually difficult labor outsourced to the third world. So if you're asking that question you're in the same boat as the rest of us.