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USA leftists in favor of voting for Biden: What other direct action should we do? (lemm.ee)

submitted 4 months ago by anarchost@lemm.ee to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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A few things that are accessible within the USA include:

Participating in mutual aid programs
Campaigning on the local level, including for positions like poll watchers
Making your voice heard in community events in general
Joining your local DSA, networking

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[–] HelixDab2@lemm.ee 1 points 4 months ago

Wish you were wrong, but you aren't. Leftists, in general, allow 'perfect' to be the mortal enemy of "better than what we have now", "good enough for this election cycle", and even "stop the worst monster to run for public office in the last century".

...Which is exactly why we have so many leftists refusing to vote for Biden; yeah, he's not great, and he's not even good on a most things, but refusing to vote for him makes it much, much more likely that a person that's exponentially worse ends up getting elected. I don't want to wake up the day after the election and face my trans friends and say, "Yeah, I'm sorry that you're probably going to be murdered, but I had to send a message about funding genocide, and now the genocide is going to increase in pace, but you're going to be killed in solidarity with Palestinians, so I guess that's okay."