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To all of the people here saying Democrats won't use this, I agree. However, we should push them to use it, and we should spread awareness of it. Anytime a Democrat says "what can we do? we're in the minority!" someone should answer with this. We should shame them into using this; we should insist that they use this.
Oh, they'll start using it. As soon as they get a majority and have progressive legislation that they ran on to block.
The only hope currently (within the governmental realm) is to ~~line up behind~~ gang up on these dumb donkeys and push them with all of our might.
You attribute to stupidity what is more reasonably explained with malice.
No lol we support a different party.
If Democrats want votes they can start acting like it.
I'm not going to do their fucking jobs for them, i have my own job i have to worry about.
I think you're reading too much into the "line up" part of my post. I should've wrote gang up, as I do not intend to indicate that you or I need to align with them.
What you are saying is that we tell out representatives what we want.
We have been doing that the whole time, they ignore their voters.
The American population generally speaking is not politically engaged. They have the idea -- one you appear to share -- that civic engagement is a chore that they don't have time for and that it's someone else's job.
So, continue doing nothing and pretending you've tried everything.
That's a deliberate feature. Keep people so concerned about basic survival that they don't have the time or energy for civic engagement.
Yeah, tried that with the genocide supporters last year. They're still getting the only policy any centrist has ever wanted, only now they're blaming anyone who didn't spend all of 2024 publicly masturbating to dead Palestinian children.
That's not really the same thing, and anyway what's the alternative? Sit around and whine post about it?
This maybe?
All the Internet talk about revolution it seems to me amounts to diddly squat.
You guys are right and I'm wrong obviously. All of the right-wing Internet talk about revolution culminated in the January 6th insurrection.
Every time they say this, we should bring up every time Republicans were in their position and slung shit around until they got their way. They really need to squirm every time they claim they're powerless. Might be tough though since they show no capacity for shame