• Paramania@lemmy.world
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    5 hours ago

    You don’t seem to understand democracy IMO. If you want the Democrats to have better candidates then work to get them elected in primaries. If you don’t think the primary candidates are good enough, find someone to run in them or run yourself.

    If you sit on the sidelines until the last stage of the process and just bitch about the results of the process, you are just part of the problem.

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        2 hours ago

        Defeatism at its finest. With that attitude Bernie wouldn’t even hold a seat or have gotten as close as he did.

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            2 hours ago

            Sure. And how do you imagine that is going to happen? Get real.

            Revolution happens by taking over the system, organizing, bringing people together. Selling the ideas of the movement.

            How do you imagine it? A small armed group of insurrectionists by bitter leftists that refuse to do the actual work of democracy. Democracy is people organizing from the bottom not accepting the system and sitting on the sidelines waiting for a socialist to be running for president.

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              2 hours ago

              It happens through working class organization, building support, protesting, and creating an organized movement, like what PSL is doing, and what other revolutionary groups have done throughout history in places like Russia, Cuba, China, etc.

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                Yeah Russia and China are great examples. Cuba you can blame on the capitalist interfere but if you think anyone wants to work towards the goal of being the Soviet Union or Communist China then you are living in a fantasy.

                I agree with the first part though, since it’s the same as what I said. But those organized movements are not moving towards an armed revolution as a realistic end goal.

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        2 hours ago

        lol. How do you think the people who run do it?!!! Yes they raise money. But you don’t have to start at running for president either. Start local. Find your local elections and support the most progressive candidates in the primary. Those are just locals, just like you. They raise money from donations. And yes you could be one of them.

        People act like the Democratic party isn’t just people. The leadership are mostly people who started locally and worked their way up. If more progressive people ran and more were involved it making sure they got elected then the Democratic party would be forced to move to the left.

        Yes money corrupts the system… that is why we fight, not an excuse not to.