This is some really fucked up, perverse gatekeeping on your part.

I don’t know what kind of magical internet credit you think I need to have to ask questions here.

I really hope that that kind of thinking is not representative here.

I actually liked your first comment but this makes me really fucking sad.

The absolutely most bizarre thing about this interaction is you over-reading into my comment about Trump supporters to claim that I’m parading as a self-superior acting liberal when you’re trying to shit-lord over me about socialism and that anyone is an idiot for being naive enough to vote.

True. I wish. I was hoping for some steps in between. 😓

Do we have a playbook for working with the existing system?

If I were to take the sentiment here on lemmy it would seem that we wouldn’t want to work with them at all.

I’m asking this in good faith.

Background: I am very leftist, card carrying DSA member, etc.

I remember being angry with Bernie for not immediately decrying the genocide in Gaza but it seems he’s completely flipped and is one of the few people in Congress speaking out against the US’s support for Israel.

I think it’s highly likely that he was influenced by fear of reprisal from AIPAC. He even mentions how AIPAC torpedoed two primaries for members of “the squad”.

Anyway, I like Bernie mostly. Is there still a genuine reason to throw him out like a baby with the bathwater?

I recently heard Obama talk about the “circular firing squad”, where perfect is the enemy of good and progressive forces tear each other down for the smallest ideological differences.

I’m hoping to hear from a few voices in lemmygrad and hexbear on their thoughts.

Edit:

Maybe I asked the wrong question. I hate Democrats, possibly more than I hate Republicans or Trump supporters. At least the Trump supporters I could write off as too ignorant, undereducated and manipulated to know better.

I joined the DSA, donated, did phone banking, went to events, and should be more involved but sometimes I can’t be.

What is the call to action? What can I do? If there were socialist candidates locally I would absolutely vote for them but at the presidential level I have no other option but to vote Democrat if we want to stand a chance at preserving democracy. For my own mental health I have to have some faith that there are some mainstream voices that have a prayer of a chance of pushing the Overton window to the left.

If this is just a thing where I must present two faces, one true one where I roast libs for being horrible and another fake one where I have to have a soft voice and try to gently move my lib friends towards sanity, then that makes sense too.

I just felt hopeful for the first time in years that the US could be slightly better than the dystopian shithole that it is.

Edit 2:

This is the forum for being true and telling it like it is. Even if I like some parts of Bernie that doesn’t mean that hating the rest of him isn’t true as well.

Holy fuck. Spot on. The fucking hand wringing about “Soviet block style” housing.

Thanks for this. The rules it describes were what I was thinking but I couldn’t put my finger on it.

I hear you and I feel for you.

Do you post any writing online? I’d like to hear more. Your quotes and analysis were pretty poetic.

Worth the read! Thanks.

Amen ✊😔

Thank you for saying this. ❤️

I do not understand people apologizing for capitalism ever.

Man that Time’s article seems so out of touch to me. I couldn’t finish it.

It’s just funny to see a 2013 take on millennials before I was even old enough to realize the shitty world we inherited from the Boomers.

That doesn’t make sense and you know it. It’s stupid and vindictive.