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The Dem Socs/Progressives in the US (and Canada) that hold on to electoralism often cite the electoral success of the left in South America. What they don't understand is that the US is nothing like South America in so many ways. All the electoral success of the South American...
...left was after long periods of movement building. People were killed by the fascistic state and their military, or tortured (often with the aid of the US). Only after decades of that, they have an opening for electoral success where they come in & win the presidency & assembly
...in a landslide. Then they have the power to change the constitution and the overall political structure of their country. This is also possible because they have good class analysis and analysis of imperialism and colonialism that folks in the US don't. On top of that....
....the US system (especially on the federal level) is designed to prevent that. How many times has the US ever have a snap election? NEVER. The US electoral system is not proportional, severely gerrymandered and limited to 2 parties that run corrupt primaries that need millions
....of dollars just to compete. Regardless of the population, the US has only 435 reps distributed unevenly. Then you have 100 senators (2 from each state regardless of the population) who have 6 yr terms, so only 33 of them are up for election at a time. So, you see that it is..
...impossible to switch the political alignment lawmakers. This is why despite having huge favourability, you can't pass single payer in congress. You can't even have national referendums. So when grifters like the Justice Dems come & tell you that you need to give them 20 bucks
of your hard earned money from your 12 hour minimum wage shift, they are stealing money from you. It's crazy to think that their 2-3 victories every election cycle does anything to change anything. Senate and Presidency are even more difficult to change. Now the 
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primarying Pelosi and Hoyer. Let's say that you beat them both after spending gazillions of dollars, what happens? Jeffries and Ryan move up the ladder. How does that change anything? So when Yasha Levine writes an article telling people to move on from DC and focus on local poli
he gets accused of being a nihilist but what folks need to understand that there are grifters from PACs to consultants to podcasters and YouTubers who have a lot of money to make off selling you this fake hope of change in DC. Everyone should have seen AOC's nonsense coming.
Workers under capitalism are already underpaid. They are already robbed by their landlord & utility providers. Don't let shady progressive orgs rob you too. You worked too hard to have your money wasted. Spend locally. At least you can heckle your city councillor at Ralph's
