From purity politics and not wanting to engage with other left leaning movements MLs are still at the start of the race. Pretty much everyone on lemmy is on the same page on many issues. Particularly on inequality and social welfare.

I always like to chime in that we should also not ignore elections and vote as left as we can in our areas. Doing so only adds credibility to our movement. If you can organize to show up and vote you can also do so for a protest or strike. Not to mention that the latter take far more effort, so skipping on an afternoon to vote shows low commitment. As such I find the remark about online progressivism to be rather funny.

  • InternetCitizen2@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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    1 month ago

    Candidates like Mamdani or Sanders shouldn’t run under the democratic ballot, because they lull voters into a false sense of security which thinks genuine change can occur through the democrats.

    That is a fare assessment I think.

    I am American and a big part of getting the candidates one wants in the general election is to show up for primaries. That is where most of the “Mamdani” types will not get passed as few people show up for them. I do agree we should have our own third party; particularly to run at local levels were we can win. None the less we as leftists in the US keep refusing to actually make one. As such our last resort of being a faction inside the dem party becomes the only resort. MLs that keep discouraging people from voting also keep us in this negative feedback loop.