Progressive Politics

2207 readers

725 users here now

Welcome to Progressive Politics! A place for news updates and political discussion from a left perspective. Conservatives and centrists are welcome just try and keep it civil :)

(Sidebar still a work in progress post recommendations if you have them such as reading lists)

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

TokenBoomer@lemmy.world

639

Too accurate (lemmy.sdf.org)

submitted 1 week ago by Turbonics to c/progressivepolitics@lemmy.world

51 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club -3 points 1 week ago (14 children)

You don't vote for a political party in the hopes that you might be able to push them to represent your interests, you vote for a party who WILL represent your interests.

If you aren't voting for a party that represents your interests because it isn't in that ballot, you should vote for the closest one to get what you can get.

Unless you are going to say Trump is just as bad as Democrats.

[–] TheresNodiee@lemm.ee 4 points 1 week ago (13 children)

In a two party system that just means no political party will ever represent your interests. You're giving up any power that you have to influence politics so that the "lesser of two evils" can slowly drag your country to hell.

[–] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 0 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Is the progressive change to the Democratic party in the room with us right now, post–2024 presidential election? It seems many believe the lesson is "drop social issues" when that wasn't even mentioned at the DNC. They're also adapting a harder stance towards immigration while not bulging on economic issues.

[–] TheresNodiee@lemm.ee 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

The party leadership is adopting that stance because they hate progressive politics more than they hate fascism. The thing is though, Americans are seeing who is out there speaking to them directly and who is actually putting up some kind of fight against the encroachment of fascism and who is just standing by and allowing fascism to spread, or in some instances apparently actually buddying up with fascists. It's the progressives who are showing that they actually care about the people, while the mainline party leadership sits back and allows Trump to destroy the American state.

More and more Americans are going to have their eyes opened to who exactly is running their party and to whom their allegiances lie--that being the wealthy and powerful, not the people.

[–] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 1 points 4 days ago

Well yeah. Still doesn't do anything to the "two" in two-party system.

load more comments (10 replies)