I mean you say that, but in the state I live in a progressive candidate is running and getting huge engagement with the largest primary turnout ever I think but certainly in decades. All while the establishment Democrats are fighting hard against him.
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I'm like 100 sure that major news outlets specifically limit how much they talk about it, hoping people forget to vote.
Your vote for a third party without ranked choice voting is a waste of your vote
A vote for someone against RCV is even worse than wasting it.
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One does not simply walk into a DNC lair to vote and expect a warm welcome with open arms. Everyone knows that the DNC is corrupt. Progressives need to organise grassroots first, lobby and then work their into the political machinery. This is how the civil rights activists in the 1960s did and modern progressives should learn from them; kinda like how the fascists also learned.
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Yeah, definitely no context to go into with primaries. But I'm glad you're picking the important fights at times like this.
The 2024 Democratic primaries, OP?
How about the 2026 primaries right now?
Yes, not great that the presidential primaries were effectively skipped, but people need to participate in a broad set of elections instead of just being fixated on the presidential race.
Your smaller races are the best shot to shape everything. If folks only bother to show up when a president is up, can't be shocked that the establishment isn't in touch with you.
I vote in the primaries, but for the independent ballot. None on the Dem ballot represent me by sticking too close to the centrist/center-right stances the party has. I can always find several people that speak for me on the independent ballot.
Never knew you could vote for primaries, it was explained to us by the adults growing up that primaries are voted by your representatives. When we learned that was a flat out lie the last primaries we could vote in was too late and now we dont even live in USA anymore. Damn