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Trump to lift pause on 2,000-pound bomb supply to Israel, Walla News reports
(denvergazette.com)
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And how, precisely, did "holding the Dems accountable" work out after 2016? Did they "learn their lesson"?
They very much did actually. Biden shamelessly just cribbed much of Elizabeth Warren's economic policies. Hillary's loss in 2016 forced him to run on a much more progressive platform in 2020 than he ever would have otherwise.
So all we have to do is leap towards fascism every other term to get baby steps to the left? Doesn't seem very sustainable.
What is your proposal to stop creeping fascism? Because all you seem to want to do is nothing.
Organize. Unify our message, develop platforms to educate, inform, and coordinate action. Quit with the purity tests and infighting.
Fill local offices with leftists so they can build their resumes and demonstrate their capability, and the intrinsic popularity of leftist policy. Elevate those leftists to higher and higher offices, to continue that demonstration at higher and higher domains, until they permeate all levels of government.
But that will take time.
In that time, we need to mitigate damage. That means electing Lesser Evils in races where no leftist has sufficient popularity to win. Petition the Lesser Evil relentlessly, leverage our organization to force their hand when possible, constantly trumpet a unified message on every platform we can. We don't yet have the popularity to do more than that. Once we do, circulate the signal and rush to unified action.
Disparate individuals fighting amongst themselves while they complain to each other might as well be nothing. Spoiling the vote with 3rd parties in races they can't win might as well be nothing. Protest abstention might as well be nothing. Fascism marches in lockstep, disorganization cannot defeat it. Not at the soapbox, not at the ballot box, not in the jury box, not with the ammo box.
Organize, organize, organize. And mitigate damage in the meantime.