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At this point, Iām hoping the left has wisened up and wonāt fall for it anymore. History needs to stop repeating itself. Leftists get defeated because they canāt put aside their internal squabbles and form a united front.
Iām going to assume you think liberals are leftists?
No, but sometimes we have to form tenuous alliances to save our asses.
The DSA is never gaining traction in a fascist state where voting is actively manipulated and resistance is persecuted. Remember Franco crushed communist/leftist resistance and dominated Spain for 40 years. The republicans lost because of their internal squabbling. They couldnāt put their differences aside to further a show of strength.
Weāre too little in number to make an impact right now. We need to keep getting DSA endorsed candidates in from the ground level. We need to primary candidates in such a way as to pull the party to the left. People need to see that socialist governance is rational. Mamdani is already paving the way.
What we cannot afford is a split. We should be building a united front of anyone left of center, not tearing it down. Getting into purity tests right now when weāre stuck in a burning house isnāt a winning strategy.
Well Iām here to tell you democrats are right of center at best. There is no party in the US, even the DSA, that would be considered left. Leftism begins at anti capitalism and they all support the status quo. Maybe instead of trying to pull leftists to the center, dems grow a spine and finally work with leftists.
Either weāre too big a voting bloc to ignore that we lose elections for dems because we donāt vote for them, or weāre such a small minority that dems donāt need us to win elections. But too many people, especially dems, like to blame us for when they lose but then refuse to cooperate and blame us that they didnāt win.
This whole āletās not divide the left voteā is simply another uneducated talking point that does nothing but keep the pendulum swinging.
I think weāre trying to get to the same point here. By āpulling the party left,ā it means defeating neoliberal candidates across the country and putting pressure on the left to grow a spine and acquiesce to anti-capitalists, aka entryism.
The material conditions are not right yet to go rogue and third-party people. Weāre stuck in a two-party winner-take-all election system, unless we can get enough of our guys in to undo all of that. āWe must walk the same streets as our oppressors,ā to paraphrase.
I still have hope for the midterm elections. But electorialism may not be enough. Efforts need to be focused or organizing ground up for the general strike - the one that brings our civilization to a grinding halt and twists the arm of the capitalists so hard, that theyāre forced into accommodation. Violent uprising is untenable in the USA. Weāre technologically at a disadvantage with our lilā rifles and handguns, without any combat training, to boot. No organization of violent resistance is happening under fascism without being brutally suppressed.
Iām for the great split. But the fascist hard-right party needs to be fractured and defeated first. They need to succumb to internal infighting before we do.
Itās incredibly effective. If I were a campaign planner for the conservatives, getting the left to complain about their own candidates would be the low hanging fruit.
Theyāre not going to learn.
After 2024 I donāt think they ever will.