I would hope this pisses off enough people to actually go vote in primaries.
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Zorque@lemmy.world 2 days agoShockingly enough, there’s things called “primaries” where you can show the fuck up and get these fossils out for people who actually act in the best interest of their citizenry.
The catch being the “showing the fuck up” part.
timbuck2themoon@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
AtariDump@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Difficult in a state where you have to declare a party (and “none” doesn’t count; they only recognize R or D)
Zorque@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Sounds like it’s as easy as declaring a party. Are there some strange initiation rituals you need to go through to declare? Sacrifice a goat or something?
AtariDump@lemmy.world 1 day ago
What if I don’t want to declare a party and remain independent?
Zorque@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Then you can watch as things don’t change because of your stubborn pride.
You can declare a party to vote in an election and remain philosophically independent, that’s always been allowed.
lemonskate@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Well I suppose you could always whine about it online instead?
It costs you nothing to register as a Dem so you can vote against these fuckers in the primaries, except maybe some worthless sense of idealogical purity.
yunxiaoli@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
This assumes the party allows a primary challenger to any arbitrary seat. Usually they don’t for safe seats. Or at risk seats. Or any seats where the currently elected member is making them money.
Zorque@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Yes, we can dither and make excuses all we like, but if we never try, nothing happens anyways.
Might as well try, yeah? Unless of course we just want to complain about how the system is unfair and not actually do anything to change it.
yunxiaoli@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
And you think doing the exact same thing over and over is “trying”?
We’ve been doing things to try to change the system, but mainstream Dems, white liberals, tend to call us radical criminals, terrorists, and damaging to progress. When we try we get shot in the back. When we try we get anonymously reported by someone ‘that agrees with our ideals but not our actions’.
So hopefully now that you people will be suffering too, you might not stab us in the back this time when things get a little uncomfy for white liberals.
Zorque@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I think coming at it from the angle of “doing the same thing over and over” is incredibly disingenuous.
Voter participation is abysmally low. Local elections in my area have a turnout of 10%. And that’s a high. If people actually showed up, that’d be something different.
Instead of pushing “do nothing and hope things change”, which is what we’ve been doing for decades, maybe we should have change and show the fuck up.