Progressives acknowledging the fact of genocide is a good first step, and it’s useful that Ocasio-Cortez and others have done so — “I think [unconditional aid to Israel] enabled a genocide in Gaza,” she said in Munich — but it is not in and of itself sufficient. Before anyone in the party can move on to selling a post-Biden vision of human-rights-first foreign policy, they must address what accountability for the war criminals in the Biden administration — those who aided, armed, and funded genocide — should look like.
You must take lessons in how to miss the point and dodge the question while responding to something that no one said, to argue against something no one claimed.
It’s not just about third-party voters, it’s also about non-voters. Not people who can’t vote, and only partly about people who aren’t registered to vote. It’s about registered voters who didn’t vote, either because they were lazy, busy, didn’t have transportation, or because they were deliberately boycotting the vote. More registered voters abstained in 2024 than there were voters for either candidate.
Laziness can only be addressed with civics education. Busyness can be addressed by making election day a federal holiday and making it illegal for employers to schedule double-shifts that day for businesses that are open. Transportation can be addressed by bolstering public transit infrastructure and adding state-funded shuttle services on election day.
The boycotters can only be addressed by convincing people to ignore all the anti-election propaganda which is being peddled on social media. If leftists actually believe in harm reduction, they would understand why voting for Kamala Harris would have been magnitudes better than allowing trump to win…
Please, spare me with your pedantic, pedagogical narcissism. The only ones in this room who need lessons are the ones who insist on an approach to electoralism which has consistently, repeatedly failed to actually win elections.
Lets just take your institutionally ignorant approaches as an example:
Its August of 2024. You have 3 months until election day. NOTHING you outline could be accomplished on that timeline, so its UTTERLY FUCKING MEANINGLESS.
That’s not why people don’t vote you fucking moron. They didn’t vote because the candidate was pro-genocide. They TOLD You why. YOU didn’t think it was important that Democrats provide an option that people WANTED to vote for, so people didn’t vote. They told you why they didn’t vote. Stop making up reasons that aren’t borne out by reality.