AnthonyJK-Admin
@OctaviaConAmore @bob @hannu_ikonen
My point is not to argue that both parties are exactly the same or that the Republicans' social fascism isn't worse in some aspects than the Democrats' more neoliberal brand.
It's rather, that, to tell those of us who feel the wrath of BOTH sides of the fascist coin leveled upon us that 95% fascism should be tolerated to avoid 100% just to save some groups over others, is fundamentally counterproductive, gives too much ground to the Right...
AnthonyJK-Admin
@OctaviaConAmore @bob @hannu_ikonen
...results in acceptance of an "oppression competition" where trading off one marginalized group's existence for another's ultimately results in all marginalized groups being harmed because the Right sees surrender of one as a stepping stone to conquer the rest; and completely ignores the option of solidarity behind an Indy Left movement that consolidates opposition against ALL forms of oppression and discrimination into systematic change.
AnthonyJK-Admin
@OctaviaConAmore @bob @hannu_ikonen
The problem in always allowing the "less shittier" party in power merely to block the "more shittier" party from power is that it allows the overall system to pile more poop on the rest of us, until we are drowned under the stink of Mount St. Poop. 40 years of seeing the Democrats move further and further to the Right in response to the Reagan/Bush/Trumpster assault of the Republican Right proves this to be correct...
AnthonyJK-Admin
@OctaviaConAmore @bob @hannu_ikonen
...and the failure of "progressives" to even slow, let alone reverse, the turn of the Democrats to the Right, and even level anything close to a challenge to the social reactionaries; belies any attempt to use the Democrats for positive social change and local movements of resistance.
AnthonyJK-Admin
@OctaviaConAmore @bob @hannu_ikonen
Once again, I acknowlege your point of personally choosing to use the Democratic Party as a lesser evil in order to avoid further retrenchment. You do what you have to do with your vote.
I, however, choose to go the route of independent organizing as a socialist, a cultural radical, and a working class/disabled Black man against the overall system that allows BOTH major political parties to act in collusion to suppress the needs of the majority.
AnthonyJK-Admin
@bob @OctaviaConAmore @hannu_ikonen
I view it not as a "third party", but as a FIRST party that defends egalitarianism and social solidarity better against the Right than what the Democrats or any other "major" party has done.
Bob 🇺🇲♒🐧🪖
@AnthonyJK @OctaviaConAmore @hannu_ikonen
Having a "3rd party" would help so much for balancing the other 2.
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