Practically speaking if you want better healthcare then spend your time convincing those that vote for less to vote for more instead.
If you want more social safety nets then convince those that vote for less to instead vote for more.
Convincing the people that already want more to move ever so slightly closer to you doesn't really get you anywhere.
Describing both national party platforms as
inadequate does a lot of cover for the side that basically wants a free for all. If one person offers me a plain cheese sandwich and another offers me fetid dog shit mixed with razor blades then calling both solutions to my hunger inadequate would be a poor characterization.
Meanwhile.....
This is certainly helpful, especially to people like the below:
Bunch of rose twitter idiots who don't know any better, right? That's how it goes here? These people who have lived full lives in this hellhole country are simply uneducated rubes who can't even comprehend.
Or is the excuse, when y'all are going on your diatribes against wide swathes of powerless victims, that you aren't talking about them?
I addressed this in my last post:
"Both parties ignore me" in relation to the COVID response is absolutely stupid. That's what I'm talking about. Now I obviously have empathy for those that have other priorities in life and can't make it out to vote due to working two jobs or child issues and feel like the concrete effects of the voting haven't trickled down to them, though I would obviously love them to do so. The last decade has been a hard one and I understand why people do feel disillusioned. 2010 was ridiculously important and guess what? People didn't vote enough, and that meant gerrymandering and a thoroughly undemocratic government for 10 fucking years.
Yes I worked things poorly in my first post because I was mores specifically talking about the parties in relation to the COVID response being the same or equivocated and yes you would have to be very misinformed to think such a think.
Being
disillusioned that change won't happen isn't the same as thinking both parties are the same. Also thinking that those sorts in that article want the fall of capitalism or something is a farce, too. They want change to happen. They want progress. They want a voice in the system. They want the vote to matter more. I cannot fault them for being disillusioned with a system that is rigged against them, and as I said I understand that there are other priorities in life for some people that take massive precedence. I don't think everyone that doesn't vote is stupid. I do think that people who look at something fairly specific like this and conclude they're both the same are getting to that territory, though.
And no that doesn't mean I think Democrats are perfect. But that's also what primaries are for and local action. As I've repeatedly said throughout the thread, voting is a massive step. It's not the only step, but voting out the arsonists gets you pretty goddamned far. Convincing people that vote for the arsonists get you further, too.
