Proposed legislation behind the impending US government shutdown contains provisions that would ban federal funding for transgender adults, as well as youngsters.
Proposed legislation behind the impending US government shutdown contains provisions that would ban federal funding for transgender adults, as well as youngsters.
Selective quoting is so much fun!! Leaving out the thing I actually said so you can argue with something else instead!! Yee HAw!!
To my knowledge we’ve never had a primary like I’m talking about (where all those traditionally non-voters decide to show up and leave those selections empty to protest a poor selection of candidates) so you can’t remember it not working. Even in 2024 we had just over %4 of primary voters cast a ballot for Uncommitted, and the highest state primary turnout was still under 40%, and as far as I’m aware for the first time in history the nominee stepped down due to their unpopularity. You going to tell me that if we suddenly had 70% primary turnout and fully a third of the ballots an office unselected that both the nominee and their campaign staff would just ignore it?
Assuming you’re a non-voter, you’re doing exactly what they want from you: shutting up when it matters so that it’s easier for them to stay where they are. Because us arguing on the internet doesn’t matter, only the elections do.
How can you say the ratfuck something that’s never happened?
They didn’t want AOC but the people voted for her and here we are. They didn’t want Mamdani but the people did so they voted for him and here we are. Bernie won the Democratic nomination for Senate before running as an Independent. People need to stop waiting for the party to “energize” them with a candidate they want. That will never happen. People need to just fucking show up and tell the party in the primaries, because the actual votes are the only thing that matters.
My dude I’m referencing Mamdani as an example of how we can overcome the party trying to go against us. And I’m not talking about supporting the ‘blue no matter who’ crowd. I’m talking about the people who say "we have to make the Democracts lose by not voting so they will wake up and give us better candidates’ crowd. I’m not telling you or any of them they should have voted for Kamala in the general. I’m saying you and them should turn in a ballot in the primaries because there are multiple offices to select a candidate for, not just the president. That impacts Congress and your state/county/city government. Leave it blank if you don’t like any of the candidates, show you care without voting your principles. I support that.
People do not care and the Democratic party is why they don’t care.
And trump is their creature, so fuck them double.
My position is not about supporting the Democratic party. It’s about the observation that over 99% of state and federal legislative seats are held by either a Democratic or Republican, and not a single Electoral College vote has been won by a 3rd party presidential candidate since 1968 (even Ross Perot who won just shy of nineteen percent of the public vote). We need change, but the system is too well stacked for 3rd party candidates to be viable in the vast majority of districts. So my belief is that our only real model for getting more progressives is to turn up in unignorable numbers to the primaries (and again, vote your principles, leave it blank if you can’t support any of the candidates). Bernie won in Vermont (he won as an Independent after winning the Democratic primary). AOC won in NY. Mamdani won in NY. Omar won in MN. All of them because voters showed up, not because the party decided to run them. Remember, it only took 4% of the primary voters, with only 20-40% turnout, voting “Uncommitted” to get national media coverage contributing to his eventual decision to drop out.