Vote when it's not trending? That sounds boring and hard!
Vote when it's not trending? That sounds boring and hard!
Vote for the change you want to see.
The Republican party got remade because trumpists showed up and outvoted the party elites. No reason it can't happen for the Left except for laziness and apathy.
If all the progressives furious about the state of affairs now had shown up for Sanders in 2016, I doubt we'd be in this hellish timeline. Sadly, he needed the young progressive vote to show up.
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As a leftist who's been voting in Democratic primaries for the last 24 years: Outside of some extreme enclaves in major cities there aren't enough of us to make a difference that way.
But conveniently there are enough of you that being alienated and not wanting to vote for the Dems is enough of you to lose the entire election and it's all your fault yadda yadda yadda.
Important enough to cost the election, yet not important enough to influence anything.
It makes sense that we can cost them the election and not have any power in the primary, considering we're the minority