In every election “left-leaning” neoliberals always try to guilt-trip Marxists into voting for their candidates with the usual schpiel: “Your party doesn’t have enough votes to win. You are just letting conservatives win”. What do you tell these people?
Tell them if they want my vote they can have it by just seriously embracing two (only two) of the following:
Drug legalization
Vacancy control
Massive increase in funding non-profit housing
Massive increase in train infrastructure
Free public transit
Significant reduction in military budget
Withdraw from NATO
End fossil fuel subsidies
China-style expansion of solar and wind farming
House the homeless in permanent housing
Criminalize corporate lobbying
Complete provision of free health care for all including mental health and dentistry
Debt jubilee
Climate reparations to global south counties“I won’t vote for a rapist” is a good one
Who is the rapist?
In this case Biden (Tara Reade)
“Your side isn’t entitled to my vote. If your side wants my vote, they have to earn it.”
I tell them bluntly that only a couple dems have won my vote in the past decade, when they protest I bring up
Police reform (Biden: “fund the police”)
Abortion (Obama promised to enshrine it in law, 111th congress dems had a supermajority, did nothing)
Supreme Court seats (at any point when the dems had the majority they could have forced it, instead we have today’s bullshit)
Formerly student debt forgiveness (Bidens limp attemps have satisfied most of my lib friends)
Federal Marijuana Legalization (rescheduling Marijuana can be done any day by the president*)
Foreign policy failures (Iraq [Bush but dems supported], Libiya, Syria, Bolivia [Trump but dems supported], Yemen, Cuba)
Drone strikes/Whistleblowers
Capitulation towards republican tax ratcheting
General tendency towards bipartisanship, thereby stopping actual reform (looking at you ACA)