• BarrelsBallot@lemmygrad.ml
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    These meager and disappointing gains have and only will turn people away.

    Some folks will gain class consciousness sure, but then they will become demoralized when the object of their support proves ineffective in an electoral system designed to please private interest, and placate the public into passivity- not push material conditions to new heights.

    Even if the purported best case scenario takes place- and material conditions improve for the average person, we will be worse off.

    Mass class consciousness in the united states can only be born of political unrest, and that unrest will not come easily if americans are comfortable.

    We are not to do nothing however, for now it’s best that we continue to grow our own circles both locally and nationally, agitate, and be ready to pull people out of the future’s rubble- taking advantage of what is clearly inevitable: amerikkka’s self destruction.

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      It’s best we continue to grow in our own circles… be ready to pull people out of the future’s rubble

      I don’t think it’s crazy say that in the time of the largest wealth disparity in U.S. history and housing affordability crisis, that an unapologetic socialist actually freezing millions of people’s rents for years is what pulling people from the rubble looks like. Removed from the fact it happened as a result of electoralism, that would be hailed as an enormous victory for base building opportunities in all other scenarios. I think that’s exactly why Zohran rode a meteoric rise to success. Electoralism is not the final answer, but it is one of many tools, and we’d be stupid not to use it