Do both, vote for the lesser evil and demand change by protesting. Those are not mutually exclusive concepts. You are definitely not going to get change by not voting, all you are doing is allowing the more evil to win and prevent you from protesting ever again.
well it's don't just vote for the lesser of two evils...
but i don't remember anyone saying biden was the only thing needed to stop the arming of israel...
From an establishment, pro-corporate view, I can see how populist rhetoric on both sides sounds similar. Scratch beyond the surface, and it becomes plain to see why right wing populists are given carte-blanche, and leftists are given the silent treatment.
Naaah, it’s more like ACTUAL Americans doing what it takes to save democracy even while a bunch of seemingly ignorant and petulant children are working hard to make it as difficult as possible.
In their moral justification, the argument of the lesser evil has played a prominent role. If you are confronted with two evils, the argument runs, it is your duty to opt for the lesser one, whereas it is irresponsible to refuse to choose altogether. Its weakness has always been that those who choose the lesser evil forget quickly that they chose evil.
Nobody asked for "trust". Just try to take a second to understand what the two party system is or even how the german system works. Keep cherry-picking info like you live in nazi germany, that just makes it easy to see you have no idea what you're talking about and are repeating popular (trash) arguments lmao
Two things. Influential does not necessarily mean correct. Second, your use of it is not correct regardless. While I would agree with her in general. Your depiction of the situation is a bit of a hyperbolic caricature. And not the reality of the situation.
We would all, myself included, do well to remember not to alienate those with whom we actually agree a lot with. Change comes with building coalitions and gaining allies. Not virtue signaling, or pyrrhic dogmatic victories.
So people need to accept the protest votes here in the primary. But those protest voting now need to be ready to do everything they can to make sure trump and the Republicans don't win come November. Because anyone who feels virtue signaling is worth more than the extra suffering Republicans absolutely will cause. Isn't much better than the Republicans themselves. As an unattributed philosopher once said. All it takes for evil to triumph is for a good men to do nothing.
There are two arguments I personally find persuasive. First, are you okay with having voted for a candidate that knowingly supported a genocide with words and with weapons (because it looks more and more like this is / will be the case). Second, what other leverage do you have over the Democratic party. Let them know that they can not win with such a historically shitty candidate, lick your wounds and try again next election.
And if you think Trump is literally Hitler, please do some research and look up what happened after Germany voted for the lesser of two evils (Hindenburg).
I am NOT ok with Biden. I'm going to vote for him anyway, because in the next term he will be less bad for Gaza than Trump would be. Even taking into account Biden's current genocide.
what other leverage do you have over the Democratic party.
Voting is but one of many political actions you can take, and is therefore better considered as a small part of a larger political strategy. The best strategy for a leftist in this election is to vote uncommitted in the primaries and for Biden in the general - to send a message to the Dems while also staving off a more rapid decline to neofascism - while spending most of your time and energy engaging in direct action (i.e. protests).
And if you think Trump is literally Hitler, please do some research and look up what happened after Germany voted for the lesser of two evils (Hindenburg).
If I were in Germany in 1932 I would probably have voted for Ernst Thälmann, but the German electoral system is not the US electoral system. We have no 3rd option, and that is not something that can be addressed either by voting or abstaining. To address this will require direct action.
No one really gets it. Just like most of the far left’s ideology- it doesn’t really make any sense unless you suspend reality and replace it with the one they created for themselves.
That is specifically why people bang on about this. It's counterintuitive but it's literally not like you put it.
Whichever side you want, not participating in voting gives you the best chances of ending up with the person you want the least to be in office. It's not a biden or trump thing. This is why voting matters.