The difficulty is convincing them there is even an alternative to voting dem. Especially when if you ask them what they think and both say you can only vote for dems and any alternatives are just a waste. Especially when they fully admit the dems are useless
Remind them that during the onset of fascism, they did nothing but post and participate in the captured system.
If they claim you need to vote D to protect trans rights, ask them why they are not smuggling and distributing hormones. Same for immigrants, what are you doing to interfere with ICE deportations? Black lives matter?..probably not much to you since you’re disinterested in forming a community defense org. Believe science?..you must not be a true believer since you don’t do anything to distribute medical literature or publicize COVID data. Et cetera.
They only place this much emphasis on electoralism because they don’t do these things. Catharsis manifest.
Encourage them to do something, anything other than #vote or scream into the void. Their identity revolves around seeing themselves as good people™, we need to be weaponizing that into action. You are approximately as moral as a Republican if all you do is vote and complain. Vote for dems, the fuck if I care. As long as you are doing real, tangible things.
The difficulty is convincing them there is even an alternative to voting dem. Especially when if you ask them what they think and both say you can only vote for dems and any alternatives are just a waste. Especially when they fully admit the dems are useless
Use their own rhetoric against these nihilists.
Remind them that during the onset of fascism, they did nothing but post and participate in the captured system.
If they claim you need to vote D to protect trans rights, ask them why they are not smuggling and distributing hormones. Same for immigrants, what are you doing to interfere with ICE deportations? Black lives matter?..probably not much to you since you’re disinterested in forming a community defense org. Believe science?..you must not be a true believer since you don’t do anything to distribute medical literature or publicize COVID data. Et cetera.
They only place this much emphasis on electoralism because they don’t do these things. Catharsis manifest.
Encourage them to do something, anything other than #vote or scream into the void. Their identity revolves around seeing themselves as good people™, we need to be weaponizing that into action. You are approximately as moral as a Republican if all you do is vote and complain. Vote for dems, the fuck if I care. As long as you are doing real, tangible things.