The US primaries and the general election are two different things. Voting uncommitted in the primary expresses support for the Palestinian plight and does not give Republicans any ground.

The uncommitted movement presents a safe and effective avenue for voters to voice dissatisfaction with President Biden’s policies, particularly with the Israel-Hamas conflict. By doing so in the primary, voters can signal discontent without risking a Republican victory in the general election. The purpose is to send a wake-up call to the Biden administration that it is failing to address issues and effectively engage with the party, vis a vis that Biden is enabling a genocide.

That being said, anyone who calls for an uncommitted or third-party vote in the general election i will personally kick in the gender neutral balls (in Minecraft).

  • spujb@lemmy.cafeOPEnglish
    25·
    10 months ago

    it’s so depressing dude. children and families are dying and somehow when a group of people get together to try to make change in a safe way they get accused of supporting MAGA.

    i’m so blackpilled with how quickly this community takes to knee-jerk name calling and misinformation.

      • spujb@lemmy.cafeOPEnglish
        10·
        10 months ago

        eh in the face of name calling and bad faith plastering of the label “fascist” i’m not going to do the same

        i do get what you are saying! but i’m gonna try to be the better woman and firmly encourage informed self-interrogation when this happens, rather than falling back to good old comparison with the enemy.

    • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world
      10·
      10 months ago

      I mean, try and keep in mind that lemmy isn’t a monolith.

      As many brow-beaters as there are trying to force you into voting against your own interests for yet another corporate Democrat (oh but this one is less against your own interests than that other guy), there are also people trying to express nuance and having a real conversation.

      Its clear to me leftists and progressives need their own party. It can and should caucus with Democrats, but it needs to have its own, actually democratic, primary system independent from whatever the-fuck-is-this-bull-shit thing the Democrats call a primary. No I don’t think any of the existing parties are sufficient (DSA or greens).

      I put a post up a few minutes ago advocating for this. I think it could find its start in the upper-midwest, be focused on inclusivity and social democracy, and still caucus with Democrats. But there is no power in blue-no-matter-who. In many ways, its blue-no-matter-who that has delivered us a burgeoning neofacist movement, because we’re forced to vote for shitty corporate Democrats uncritically. We need to abandon the white-liberalism of the NYT, NPR, Atlantic, and WaPo crowd. Its not working, It never worked. Enlightened mediocrity has only made things worse for all of us. This is probably my last election as a registered Democrat. I switched from independent to Democrat to support Bernie, and have put in several thousand hours since 2015 organizing and fundraising for various Democratic candidates or leftist projects. The Democrats turned out to be a bad investment of that time, and I sometimes wonder if Bernie thinks the same thing.