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Neither was I. An activist Socialist can't do much except in local and state levels, at a national level it takes a mass worker party for electoralism to have any real bite.
That's why I call national elections loss prevention, because you can either vote to maintain the status quo, or let marginalized groups be attacked and vilified as fascists gain power.
The status quo already has marginalized groups being attacked and vilified.
Yes, which is why you have to combine that with grassroots movements. Just voting third party or for Trump gets fascists elected, and voting is therefore just loss prevention. To move to the left and improve things, Unionization, protesting, and organizing from the bottom-up is necessary.
It's not even loss prevention. It's slightly delaying outright fascism. The Democratic Party has no interest in anything more ambitious.
You're correct. The only major party that keeps insisting that it protects the vulnerable doesn't. I hope unions will do what Democrats refuse to.