Progressive here. I vote in every primary and try to rally support for the most progressive in my coalition. Come November, I vote against fascists which means voting for Democrats because they're obviously better in every way.

If you don't vote or vote third party, congratulations, it means you were duped by right-wing propaganda or don't understand how our election system works and the inevitable binary outcome that comes with FPTP and whole you didn't give fascists +2, you gave them +1.

Democrats haven't held an unbiased presidential primary since 2008, but go off. Superdelegates will save us.

I vote in every damn primary fuck you

We keep being told that we're not voting in the primaries.

I don't quite believe it. I'm starting to think the primaries are rigged. And this is their excuse -- they get to smugly tell us we're just not showing up to primaries in enough numbers to make a difference. Conveniently puts the blame on us, trying to make us blame ourselves.

Ahh, projection.

Tell me again how Bernie dropping out of the primary and endorsing Hilary lost her the general election.

“Yadda yadda yadda misogyny.”

Or, if you want a more recent example, there’s this progressive who won the democratic NY mayoral primary. Progressives did what we’ve been told to do — disagree during the primary, then vote blue no matter who in the general. Liberal democrats lost their goddamn minds and ran Andrew “Sex Crimes” Cuomo as an Independent spoiler.

Progressives’ biggest mistake was ever believing liberals.

Damn right I didn't vote in the last primary!

... because I was fucking homeless!

Can't vote without a permanent mail receiving residence!

lol what primaries? As I recall last time we were simply handed Kamala, and everyone I know voted for her despite that. But If Biden had stepped away earlier as he originally claimed to intend to, we would have had time for a real primary. And I would have voted in it.

you know, like our last primary.

DNC primaries are nothing more than a livestock auction for donors. Libs will cry a big game about FPTP election systems and our need to overturn CU, but will ignore any of those major systemic contradictions when it happens to affirm their worldview

Because the DNC will sue to keep them off the ballot and win, and when constituents sue the DNC for not keeping their promises and the DNC will argue they are are a private entity or something (I forgot the exact argument), and under no obligation to keep their promises, and win. 🤷‍♀️

Independents can't vote in primaries in my state and many others.

Independents are the majority, 40% of voters, with Rs and Ds at 30% each.

It's not just about voting. We need more people RUNNING!

Knock Down The House

Regardless of your opinion on AOC, this documentary about how she got elected lays out the steps. IMO it's how AOC got elected that is the key to fixing America. Americans need to make that happen every single election. Systematic problems need more than 1 presidential term to reverse after all.

1. Independent local grassroots electoral movement. Dedicated to getting/organizing volunteers, signature gathering, door knocking, everything from getting candidates on the ballot to winning in the election.

2. Candidate nominations. AOC didn't sign up, her BIL or someone nominated her and the Grassroots Movement approached her to run.

3. PRIMARIES. PRIMARIES. PRIMARIES. Target establishment DNCs who clearly have more in common with corporate lobbyists than their own constituents.

4. Run the numbers game. Only 1/4 of their candidates won. Democrats should face a primary EVERY SINGLE ELECTION.

What fucking primaries? 🤦‍♀️

There may be a ring of truth in that, but I'm registered "no party" in my state and therefore CANNOT vote in the primaries. I've considered changing my affiliation to Republican, so I can vote I'm their primaries.

I mean you say that, but in the state I live in a progressive candidate is running and getting huge engagement with the largest primary turnout ever I think but certainly in decades. All while the establishment Democrats are fighting hard against him.

I vote in primaries, I vote for the more progressive candidate. I've also held my nose for too long voting for the candidate with more money and especially when they are just MAGA lite.

There were primaries?

One does not simply walk into a DNC lair to vote and expect a warm welcome with open arms. Everyone knows that the DNC is corrupt. Progressives need to organise grassroots first, lobby and then work their into the political machinery. This is how the civil rights activists in the 1960s did and modern progressives should learn from them; kinda like how the fascists also learned.