Yes! Primaries primaries primaries.

Go and primary every single DNC candidate that isn't good enough, get better democratic candidates wherever you can. Put even more energy into primaries than into the election itself! But when the decision comes down to Churchill or Hitler, you better vote for fucking Churchill.

Everything else is just throwing the minorities and the future under the bus as a cost of doing business.

Wanna know how to pressure the DNC to pick a candidate you like? Go fucking vote for them in the primary!

Typically, the primaries get 1/10th the turnout of the general election. That means that a very small number of people can sway the primary. Go stump for your candidate. Make phone calls, talk to your family and friends and community, explain why your candidate is the better choice.

The lack of a primary in 2024 was fucking awful, but guess what? Chances are, there is a primary going on for your state right now, get to work!

Yeah...

To the people "wanting to teach the DNC a lesson", in the nicest way possible, you're fucking idiots.

They threw literally ever other minority group under the bus, and got absolutely nothing for it - if anything they actually got less than nothing, because Trump wasn't just going soft on Israel, he was actively cheering them on!

I will never understand the mentality of choosing that hill to die on... Like couldn't you guys have waited until Trump was at least off the board first.

Man was literally on his way to a lifetime in jail and bankruptcy, that he got out of scot-free because you guys decided 2024 was the time for a protest vote.

Go out and pressure the DNC to not be shit

How about you go out and draw the rest of the owl there? The main power we have is our right to vote, and you're saying we shouldn't use that to pressure the DNC to put forth a pro-worker anti-war candidate.

This continues to be the stupidest, least productive way to think about elections. The lesser of two evils argument may be true, but it failed to motivate people to vote for Kamala in 2024 (or Hillary in 2016, for that matter). You can bitch about protest votes or an apathetic electorate all you want, but at the end of the day, you don't win elections if you don't get votes, and, "yEaH, bUt TrUmP iS wOrSe," didn't get votes. If the Democrats once again run a candidate who doesn't reflect their base and once again lose the election, it will once again be their fault for repeating a losing strategy that produces losing candidates.

I'm a leftist who absolutely voted Harris, because the other option was horrific. I was not in love with Kamala but I did feel that she was a faaaaaaaaaaaaaaaar better option. But I will not lie, I know several people who were basically exactly like the people you are talking about. It's disheartening.

They literally do think everything that's happened under Trump would have been the same under Kamala.

They are deeply unserious people who have no ambitions for politics and care only about purity-testing.

I'm just pissed off we let America have so much power over the world as it is. They're one country, for fuck sake, not the World Police.

I think the argument is that voting for status quo candidates aren't actually getting us those things, either. And any small incremental gains are quickly reverted the next time republicans are in power.

I cannot express how much I fucking hate people like you right now

Yes because this is about your emotions and needing a satisfying story to direct your anger at, not reality.

"fuck democracy! You are required to vote how I want you to vote! You don't have a choice!" /s