We love the Americans who are putting up a fight against fascism. We see you and hope that more join in.
this post was submitted on 20 Jan 2026
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It's not leverage to say "You'll never have my vote no matter what you do." If they want leverage, they should vote in the primaries. It might be limited to a few progressive strongholds at first, but that's all it takes to build momentum and prove that these are winnable platforms.
Then primary any officials who votes against progressive policies. Go after the milquetoast party leadership, vote them out of their seats. Participate in town halls, communicate with legislators about what's important to you, run for local office if there aren't any progressive candidates already. Do anything to build momentum and slowly start turning the enormous machine that is the DNC in a more progressive direction. It's a big ship, it takes time to change course.
It's not gonna happen overnight just because leftists stay home crying about neolibs and posting memes about corporate dems while refusing to participate in the democratic processes which are the means of effecting change within our system.
And if your only solution is to violently overthrow the systems in place, then good luck getting anyone in power to listen to your proposed policy changes. It's just not gonna happen.
"You have to earn my vote" is very different from "you'll never get my vote no matter what you do." You can kind of say whatever you want though, given that the Democrats never tried to earn votes.
You should realize there is a spectrum between "working within the existing Democratic party structure" and "violent revolution." The former is as unlikely as the latter. But now that I put it into words, maybe you're right. Maybe all change in America is equally impossible - the establishment is too powerful and entrenched, and the American people just don't have it in them to fight for anything. Maybe you just have to ride this doom spiral all the way to the bottom and rebuild from the rubble before anything gets any better.