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Vote in primaries, find and fundraise better candidates, and so on. It's not going to do much in the short term, but parties have major platform changes every generation.
Like what happened with Bernie Sanders? Like how things would be different with Obama?
There's more than one position in government, and you're not going to get more progressive presidential candidates if you can't even be bothered to vote in more progressive house reps in the primaries...
I've already agreed that we should vote. But it's not enough.
Progressive ideas have effectively been taken off the table since the Cold War. Even if we can get more progressives in Congress, the establishment dems sideline them. It's easier for both parties to move to the right because this does not threaten the wealth and privileges of the oligarchy.
Any progressive running for president is, for that reason, fighting against the odds. And when they lose, they take the energy behind their campaign and redirect it to support "centrist" democrats. That's it, two political parties and we call ourselves a democracy.
Why do those establishment Dems exist? Because people vote for them. You want to jump to progressive Presidency and leadership but don't want to take the preliminary steps. As others said yes you need to vote in lower primaries to replace establishment Dems from the ground up.
More importantly you have to convince the rest of America of your ideals with feet on the ground and conversations with real people. I'm not seeing any of this. Just a load of whining that the government isn't the way you like it but you're going to put in zero work to change it.
You have to not only get out and vote. You have to convince the people who are voting for establishment Dems or Republicans to change their votes. Instead you bitch about them, complain about "liberals" and further the divide with them.
Get off Lemmy. It's not the real world. You're in an echo chamber here and talk to the people out there who don't agree with your ideas and convince them.