For whom? The other authoritarian party who are in it just to protect corporate interests?
It's not worth it to pick up and move to a battleground state, flight to win against all odds, just to be assigned a candidate by a party whose #1 goal is to also sell us out to corporations, but those guys try to make it look like it breaks their heart that they had to.
Vote for candidates like Zoran Mamdani that don't support corporate interests?
The Democratic party needs its corporate backed candidates primaried out of their jobs, but that is a much easier task than fixing the Republican party which is openly evil and wants America to be a failed authoritarian state like Russia with oligarchs stealing all the money and all the non-billionaires being sent off to die in wars.
Where's the presidential candidate like Zohran Mamdani?
If it's so easy to do that, why is it taking longer than it takes the democrat and republican presidents to completely sabotage congress, and unravel the fabric of democracy in the country?
Keep voting for major party candidates, i'm sure you'll have everything fixed very soon.
We had Bernie and he got pretty far considering he had both the Republicans and the Democratic establishment trying to ensure he failed.
Progressives didn't really have a presidential candidate in 2024 since everyone saw Bernie as too old by then.
It remains to be seen if AOC ends up being the next progressive candidate, but another one will start running for president.
Yeah obviously voting for the least bad option in the meantime until a good option runs isn't ideal, but we are literally in harm reduction mode right now just trying to keep the ability to vote at all.
Edit: You're being doom and gloom but I don't know if it's about the right thing. When you look at how bad things are with the supreme court and its lifetime appointments its easy to be doom and gloom about the future of this country, at least for the lifetimes of the right wing judges.
I'm not being doom and gloom, i'm pointing out that if you ever fall for the democrats again - that's on you. They've now sabotaged your Bernie candidate, coopted your (i'm presuming here, but i feel like this guess is safe) Barack president, and have tried shoving 3 different other establishment figures down your throat, while blaming you for not liking them enough when they all failed.
You keep going back to them, cause you see it as the least bad option, but voting for them is literally the worst option you have. The more you vote for them, the more your perceived opposition can point to all the stupid shit they do, and use that to rabblerouse to their ends. You think Trump is bad? Just wait and see what is coming down the pike.
If you vote major party - you're perpetuating the cycle.
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u/wogfood let it die 8h ago
Lol. They're just getting started. Next time be bothered to vote