Do you have Covid?

And it’s backfiring, which is part of why the Democrats are going to win the presidency in this election.

We know the Democrats aren’t going to do anything to stop Israel, so the only real question left is whether or not the Republican party will fracture after Trump loses again.

I’m a single-issue anti-genocide voter. My political ideal is a mashup of Library Socialism and Anarchism. The election can’t be subverted, it’s already been decided that Harris is winning.

Palestine.

PBS SpaceTime has a video on that this week: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAtbzhpI4Js

I might as well have been quoting the wikipedia article:

I only have one vote for the Presidential seat and it is entirely symbolic because I don’t live in a swing state.

You say we need to capture the party, but I’m watching it be captured by “moderate” Republicans who suddenly seem very eager to endorse Harris.

This election didn’t have a primary, so it sounds like there never was a chance for a “real push”.

If we’re not allowed to be realistic about our expectations, then yes it very much is toxic positivity.

Discussing such activities is illegal in the USA.

“Those guys” are part of the problem, voting for them before they stop helping genocide the Palestinians does not incentivize them to stop being part of the problem.

My encouragement to you is to do more than just voting. It’s necessary but insufficient on its own.

You misunderstand, I’m trying to point out that a “Democracy” that offers only the illusion of choice is anything but.

There’s nothing anti-democratic about having a “dangerous” option on the ballot, but if there’s only one “safe” candidate then there is no real choice to be made and democracy is impossible.

If there’s only one option to “save democracy”, then democracy is already dead.

Not great, so people should continue to apply pressure.

Cool. Tell all your Democrat friends that they can have my vote when they start doing the bare minimum and embargo arms sales to Israel.

How’s Palestine going?

Don’t misunderstand, part of me is glad that it’s going to be Harris and Walz, but I have to be realistic with my expectations. A slightly slower crawl towards fascism and mass climatic genocide seems the best I should expect, but I would love to be pleasantly surprised.

It’s a fait accompli.

Time to start planning for another business-friendly Democrat administration. It probably won’t have majorities in both houses, but it wouldn’t matter much even if they did manage to pull that off. Bipartisanship is the name of the Democrat game, and the next question is whether the Republican remnant will play ball or fall into infighting after whatever bloody nonsense their nutjobs get up to this time.

This has been a fait accompli since 2015. The only thing I guessed wrong about this election 9 years ago was Pelosi actually being able to convince Biden to drop out.

Now that he has, Harris is a shoe-in.

After the election maybe? That seems rather late to me.

Hence this discussion where I made my intentions known well in advance of the election.

Direct action and building up third party alternatives seems to be the best long term courses of action.

Direct action is an easy way to end up in jail (even feeding the homeless is illegal now) and third-parties are useless due to our first-past-the-post electoral system.

The best long-term courses of action are mutual aid and the development of alternative structures of power that can serve human needs without being subject to the whims of the existing political establishment.

If I were american I would work towards unionizing as many people as possible, report that I won’t vote democrat, and then vote democrat unless a third party has a chance of winning in my state.

This is acceptable.

No worries for the late reply, and I haven’t watched the debate or even followed any of the coverage. To be honest, I’ve mostly checked out of the election since it’s become a fait accompli.

I’ll do my research on the local candidates when my ballot comes in the mail but I’ll be leaving the choice for president blank. Harris will win the election anyway.