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Former democratic party activists are organizing Muslims and Arab-Americans in Swing states to vote against Biden with the demand that he support a ceasefire in Gaza.

I'll allow them a little bit of electoralism this time.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

ya maybe I should've brought up that I'm also a CPUSA member but that felt a little cheap at the time. I think we broadly agree on voting on electoralism and going off your one "confession post" so it was a little disappointing do see you calling a perspective that's pretty important right now stupid and going after people who're saying they don't want to vote for a guy actively enabling genocide at this very moment.

Like joining the CPUSA and talking abt it with comrades there helped me move past being a "there's no difference and engaging with electoralism is a waste of time because it's not immediate armed insurrection" mindset. IMO the voting question is really a pretty simple problem with a simple answer, and getting so heated over it to the point of defending views most of us don't even really hold isn't helping the problem of the entire american left having a meltdown over elections every few years.

Why relitigate if voting is good or bad right now, when a sizable contingent of people are getting fed up with the Dems, and not even the most progressive elements of the Dems are stepping up to back them? If we're trying to build a mass movement, isn't this a golden opportunity to weaken the hold of a liberal capitalist party on that mass movement?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Yeah, voting is tactical choice; it doesn't hold some "moral" choice. Nobody should be dissuaded from voting just because it "doesn't work." If they want to vote, vote.

Besides, we run our own candidates now (like Justine Medina and Tony Pecynovsky).

We also supported the Green Party in their election in D.C. and the Working Families Party.