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Republicans vs Democrats
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Working Class: Help Us Please
Republicans: Shut up you whiny cucks. Heil Trump!
Democrats: We tried to give you $100 dollars to cover your rent and groceries for the month, but Republicans wouldn't let it pass unless we whittled the number down to $5.
Liberals: We'd love to give you universal healthcare and universal basic income and free you from oppressive medical and student loan debt. Oh and we can do all this well stopping climate change, and strengthening the economy.
Working Class: interesting... We've heard you all, and we've chosen to split our votes between the Republicans and the Democrats. Again.
Liberals: What the actual fuck.
Republicans: Oh good. To celebrate we're going to open-mouth cough on you, then throw a dart at The Constitution to see which right we want to take away from you next.
Oh my sweet summer child, liberals only care about their bank accounts. They just pretend to care knowing that shit won’t happen because Republicans won’t let them. It is all theatre to keep you from seeing that they are all the same.
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You can't paint with this broad of brush. Clearly some Democratic politicians actually give a shit (especially as you get down to state and local levels) -- total cynicism about politics is reactionary. And of course a ton of lib activists (who are not getting paid, or who are even sacrificing earnings for political purposes) actually give a shit.
The goal is to separate these folks from the opportunists and then convince them that we have a better way to improve things.
It doesn't matter if there's a handful of low-ranking Dems who might want to do more for the working class. The system is set up in a way such that they'll never be able to make any meaningful changes. If it were possible to vote in a better system, it would've happened already.
I'm not suggesting that we can vote our way to socialism. I'm pointing out that extreme cynicism about politics is reactionary ("there is no society", "I'm from the government and I'm here to help", and all that) and not accurate.
To get people on our side we have to describe the world as it actually is (accurate) and show a path to something better (not reactionary).