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Kshama Sawant is running for US congress (hexbear.net)
submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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https://www.kshamasawant.org/

Both Democrats & Republicans serve warmongering billionaires.

I'm running for Congress against Democrat Adam Smith, who has fully backed the genocide in Gaza & has blood all over his hands.

Just as I used my City Council election campaigns to build momentum to win the first major-city $15 minimum wage (which is now the nation's highest at $20.76/hour), the Amazon Tax, and unprecedented renters' rights, I will use my Congressional election campaign to help build the antiwar, anti-genocide movement and to launch a historic fight for Medicare for All.

Just as I did in my decade as a representative of working people in Seattle, if I’m elected to Congress, I will accept only the average worker’s wage and donate the rest of my six-figure salary to workers’ and social justice movements.

https://www.kshamasawant.org/why-im-running/

Also she is running against a zionist

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[-] [email protected] 43 points 1 week ago

Better a trot than a demoncrat

[-] [email protected] 24 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

down with sectarianism

vote red no matter...vote red

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

down with sectarianism

Lol said in support of Sawant is quite funny

[-] [email protected] 23 points 1 week ago

pika-pickaxe me on my way to put the pickaxe back in storage

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

With the way latin america has has successes with social democracy I feel like we might need to consider trotski had better instincts than we give him credit for

[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Latin America is very different from the rest of the world. Old liberal democracies with large indigenous populations and a history of being imperial/neocolonial subjects as liberal democracies. These countries have been electing leaders longer than most Europeans but without ever having been imperial powers. It's just the right mix for socialist electoralism to actually get big material wins.

[-] [email protected] 25 points 1 week ago

his name is literally Adam Smith

[-] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago

Give her a gundam

[-] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago

I know people are tired of supposed "electoralism" in american but honestly I don't think it's a bad idea to try to kick up a straight up communist up to US congress, could make her and her politics (if she actually is vocal about them) more popular like it happened with aoc

[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

Electoralism is fine if it works. So long as this works we might be onto something

[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

I trust the trots more than i do the demsocs

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

im scared, i forgot why voting is a bad idea, im excited about all the leftists with decent chances popping up and i think the government might change to match the peoples changing views

[-] [email protected] 23 points 1 week ago

Someone like sawant getting a seat in congress would be less about changing the government and more about changing the people's views, something many leftists forget they have to do because they're not actually popular

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Why advertise our views in public where people read and watch things when we could do it by ourselves in book clubs in a basement somewhere? Or Lemmy where we can get defederated by everyone?

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

To be fair, I can lose my job. I can lose a lot.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Damn dude, you didn't have to commit murder like that lmfao

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

When one wins narrowly and then the entire system ratfucks them you will experience a new flavor of disappointment. We are used to leftists getting screwed out of victories before they happen. When it happens after it is gonna be a rough day for us

[-] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago

Since this is electoralism:

If she can win she'd kick the Overton window right out of its frame. I wonder if she (the orgs) can grind out a victory, or at least make her a threat.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago

get out of my emails, Kshama

[-] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago

SAlt: no

[-] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago

Sawant split from SAlt and has her own org now

[-] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago

Trots splitting, a tale as old as time

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Only trots ever split it-is-known

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Ah the Bolsheviks were trots, trots will be excited by this validation

[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago

Good luck!

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

Inside of you there are two wolves:

-Tax Amazon out of existence

-Nationalize it and sell everything at cost

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

God damn are we seeing the red sun rising?

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