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Rallying our forces. Protests are where people get connected with organizations whose focus is to bring the working class into cohesive groups that are empowered through collective struggle to win better conditions. A protest makes it visible to everyone at the protest and all the regular working people who witness it, what they believe in as a collective and that none of them are anywhere near alone in feeling that way. They make it clear, both to the protesters and to the ruling class, how much strength there is in numbers and how deeply connected we are. It is a show of our forces and; even though I agree that protest is severely neutered under our current state of policing; when done correctly, it can still be a display of the numbers that we are willing and able to mobilize and even use to disrupt the system when doing so is strategically advantageous and agreed upon by the movement.

Of course, the ones done correctly are generally the ones that don't get any media attention, if not deeply negative attention, precisely for all the reasons I stated. It is against the interests of the wealthy and ruling class for those to be viewed positively and widely publicized.

Oh, the reaction to these protests also makes it blindingly apparent where the loyalties of the ruling class lie, which is bound to wake a few people up along the way.

If nobody ever mobilizes, you quickly see people start to go doomer, believing nobody cares and there's no possible way out of the situation because this is what we "chose". This is a "democracy", and this is what democracy gave us, so it must be correct. It's much easier to gaslight the masses and normalize what is happening if they never see resistance to the popular narratives put up by powerful monied interests.

So you understand that the Democrats willfully lost the election by supporting genocide; that that was the choice they made as a party, and the voters' response to that decision was a very predictable one; but you still have energy to debate anyone who would dare to criticize and take the same principled position against them?

Doesnt mean I want to bring genocide home.

Oh, I see. It's okay as long as it's over there. Well then Trump's genocide should be fine because you didn't immigrate over the southern border. Resistance is not necessary, go home everybody. Everything will be fine as long as we all make sure to vote as hard as we can!!

whether they understand it or not

If such a thing can be done without understanding, how do you know that you aren't the one who has been pushed to the right and that you aren't doing the work of dragging others along with you?

Surely nobody thought of this 20 years ago when George fucking Bush was in office. Or 40 years ago when Reagan was in office. This idea of pushing the liberal party left and running locally is a totally fresh and original idea and definitely isn't a distraction from organizing the working class into a force of its own which demands concessions from the ruling class at the threat of upheaval.

Hows it feel to simp for a party that can't get a 3% advantage on donald fucking Trump? If that was our only option and we are effectively voting at gunpoint then there never was any "democracy" to protect.

I love how democrats with no interest in catering to their base of voters are super effective at preventing third party and progress candidates from even getting on the ballot or in front of voters, so you can sit there keep saying they have no chance of winning. I love how liberals will excuse voting for the genocidal maniacs you're convinced are your only option because you're comfortable enough under this system that you're willing to work within it and turn your cheek to all of the violence it commits at home and abroad.

You only care when the genocide comes to your front door, what about your fucking neighbors who are getting evicted and thrown out of their homes because their housing is too valuable to somebody else's monetary interests to just let them live there in peace? What about the homeless, the working poor, the food insecure, the largest prison population on the planet who coincidentally are legal to use as slave labor? Are they not worth fighting for as long as you aren't the one on the streets, working for starvation wages, or in prison? In 20 years, are you going to get a "progressive" in office that will offer platitudes about actually treating those people like human beings as they do next to nothing about it? Capitalism requires us to live under the threat of homelessness, of imprisonment, of starvation. Our government is completely captured by capitalists who will not allow you to vote this away, because without this level of coercion their system will collapse. All they have to do is make you believe you are not being coerced, and if anyone is then they deserve it actually, and that is precisely the role played by our two parties.

A better world is possible, but it sure as hell isn't going to come about through any "solution" sold to us by those who collect vast power and profit within the world as it is. THAT is today's problem, the refusal to recognize where power lies and what interests it has. Not the third party voters who already see the system for what it is and always has been. Not the ones who are struggling to bring an end to this system that is designed such that its only material interest is in finding new ways to remove our rights and boosting candidates who will carry that out.

Dems have an economic record of faster growth, lower unemployment, better stock market performance etc

You think their media tells them that?

Section 1.5 and 1.6 of this article is another great write up if you can't commit to reading a book

Man you should really talk to someone about this clear obsession you have with the sex lives of teenagers. It can't be healthy to spend this much time thinking about it in this much detail.

I thought it was sweet corn

A place down the street from me makes an elote pizza; which is Ricotta, a shredded cheese blend, corn and cotija cheese, pickled red onions, cilantro and tajin.

It's not hubris though. They know what they are doing and they don't care because they won't be the ones hurt by it. They would legitimately rather Trump be president than win by having to adopt any kind of actually progressive policy. This is what all of their actions have shown us. Don't give them a pass for incompetence, they are just as culpable for the situation we find ourselves in today.

Fair enough, just dispelling the common notion that "breakfast is the most important meal of the day". No particular meal is more important than another, just that you're getting the nutrition you need. It sounds like this is what works for you. Carry on :)