• Semi-Hemi-Lemmygod
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    117 months ago

    I’m a progressive who’s voted in every single election for the last 24 years.

    I am not taken seriously.

    • @timbuck2themoon@sh.itjust.works
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      7 months ago

      Then there really aren’t enough of you huh?

      If progressives were even half as popular and half as dedicated as they think themselves to be then they’d sweep elections across the country.

      Imagine more AOC hitting the pavement and voting in primaries and less whining and crying on the internet. I like AOC and progressive causes and such but it’s apparent that there is not enough there (either by apathy or lack of resonance with progressive ideas) to make progressivism a real popular cause.

      So I ask progressives- what is the path forward to political viability?

      Because I like to contrast this with the whackos on the right. The one thing to their credit is they vote every. single. time. And hence the Republican party has gone from right to off-the-rails right and dragged the country with them. They got it done somehow. How do progressives do the same but in reverse?