It’s a week before the election. Quit browbeating me and go talk to some people who have a chance of listening to you. Or are you actually just a cynical sophist who likes winning arguments more than you do “saving democracy”?

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[–] ChaosMaterialist@hexbear.net 29 points 2 months ago (2 children)

If liberals did any organizing I wouldn't have to bang on my sign!

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Banging the sign again...

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Liberals are outnumbered 2-to-1 by non-voters. 50% of the electorate does not vote, so if they aren't doorknocking they are not serious.

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[–] Frank@hexbear.net 20 points 2 months ago

No, no, you see, if we just exterminate the entire X ethnic group we'll pick up exactly three Klansmen in Topeka and win everything forever!

[–] MayoPete@hexbear.net 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Here's a bitter pill for us... why aren't WE knocking on those non-voter doors? No one else is and we actually have something real to say to them.

[–] ChaosMaterialist@hexbear.net 5 points 2 months ago

You are absolutely correct. There is opportunity to organize where everybody else is not. In fact both marx and blushing-engels have the same idea.

that workers’ candidates are nominated everywhere in opposition to bourgeois-democratic candidates. As far as possible they should be League members and their election should be pursued by all possible means. Even where there is no prospect of achieving their election the workers must put up their own candidates to preserve their independence, to gauge their own strength and to bring their revolutionary position and party standpoint to public attention. They must not be led astray by the empty phrases of the democrats, who will maintain that the workers’ candidates will split the democratic party and offer the forces of reaction the chance of victory. All such talk means, in the final analysis, that the proletariat is to be swindled.