No Stupid Questions

Remember that guy before Trump? Dunno about progressive, but he was young.

dont worry, kamala is running again

There’s a lot of doomerism happening in these comments, so I’m just gonna add in that yes, I do think there’s a chance. A small chance, but a chance nonetheless

Right now shit sucks real bad. People know this. That’s why Trump won the first time. He ran as an anti-establishment everything candidate and people—not just his bigoted cultists—ate it up. But things didn’t get better. So then people voted for Biden bc he was the opposition to Trump who had become the establishment as the sitting president. And Biden won and shit still sucked. So then they went back to Trump bc there was no viable republican or democrat candidate outside of Trump and Biden/Harris. (Yes Bernie should have been the answer but America is currently a two party system and he was robbed of a primary election.)

So now that everything sucks and is getting worse and we’ve tried republicans and democrats and none of it is working and most candidates refuse to talk about real issues like affordability, people are starting to say “fine. I’ll find a different candidate then.”

And that’s how we got Zohran Mamdani, an openly democratic socialist as mayor of New York City. All across the country progressive candidates are using this momentum to primary out establishment dems. Not all are winning, but many of the races are close, like Kat Abughazaleh’s race. Even that helps because it shows dems that if they want to keep their seat as the controlled opposition so they can keep getting their bribes, then they have to change their messaging and priorities. People aren’t satisfied with a campaign to return to pre-Trump business as usual. People want a candidate that works for them

So check who’s on the ballot of your dem primaries (which are happening rn and through the summer depending on where you live) and see if there are any progressive candidates and do what you can to support them. Donate, volunteer, spread the word, and most importantly, show up and vote in the primary and the elections in November. Even local candidates like city council members and judges can have a lot of power if they have enough numbers and the support of the people

I know a lot of people on lemmy say that America is beyond repair and that the only answer at this point is a violent revolution but not only is this not realistic, it’s not helpful. A violent revolution would be devastating and the amount of lives lost would be horrifying. Theres also the fact that most violent revolutions result in a military authority taking power rather than a true democratic rebuilding. It’s much easier to fantasize about a violent revolution than it is to do the slow, tedious work of creating real change from the ground up

There’s no need to jump to the worst case scenario when we have a prime opportunity to make real change and build grassroots movements. Like I said, this is our chance to capitalize on people’s anger and dissatisfaction with the system to build class consciousness and grassroots movements. Do what you can, even if it doesn’t seem like a lot, and stay hopeful. We’ll get through this together by supporting each other

at this point it's hard to say if we'll even have an election in general

Define progressive

Elections 2028:

90y old republican with dementia, salivating to the microphone

Vs

88y old democrat on wheelchair, suffering terminal cancer, taking painkillers directly to the bloodstream.

Unfortunately during the debate, republican saliva shorted out cables in the microphone, while Democrat fell into coma.

Elections are won by the republican, democrats are weeping on bluesky, wondering why people voted for a shitty president again.

The End.

Won't happen until both the Republican and Democratic parties are dead and buried. As we've seen over the last decade, they're more than happy to work together if it means keeping progressives out of office.

Yes, we elected progressive presidents in the early 20th century. A century ago.

Then we decided in the 70s to stop being progressive.

Not very long anymore.

They will be so very far behind in all fields of tech and business because of the extreme conservativism. The world isn't going to watch anymore who gets elected there, if at all. Nobody cares.

You'll have trouble finding someone worse than trump, but if you do I'm sure he'll win with a landslide.

America is going to collapse. Start having faith in self and building a community that has a foundation that isn't using and abusing you.

This is more of a thought and a note to myself. It started out as sarcasm but I don't think it really is. The more I detox from American pop culture the more real authentic and honest life seems to be. It's like I have been lied to my entire life about truth and freedom.

For which office? You guys already have elected progressives in some offices

The Puritans were elder dipshits.

Sure the founding father's were progressive for their time (minus the misogyny, classism, and slave owning), but the Puritans never went away.

They just became the Know Nothing's, the Confederates, the Dixiecrats, the moral majority, the tea party, and now MAGA.

It's gonna take a big crowbar, or some other tool, to oust the billionaires from power.

clinton and obama were not that old.

Just look at who's been winning all the special elections. The fascists either lock this shit in like Russia in the next 3 years or they're fucked

Yes. If you look at the last couple of elections and when they were born you’ll notice an outlier that got that vote because they promised something different.

It’s doable, but it seems like the current voters like people born at the tail end of WW2.

It would take another age of enlightenment, otherwise people are just too conservative here.

I'm going with a third option: who the fuck cares?

America appears to be the batshit landscape the rest of the world knew it was but we were always getting drowned out from the noise of your soft power via hollywood and manipulative political/economic orgs. If you're having issues, has it been considered that you might wanna contain that shit instead of plaster it all over the world news? It's exhausting to continually see headlines about what nutty thing that wouldn't occur anywhere else happened today in Jesus land. And then have to suffer through the trivial machinations of moaning and hand wringing so that citizens can relieve themselves of responsibility and go back to their Netflix and video games.

America is cooked all the way through because it fosters a culture that takes away the compact mirror and hands a megaphone to kids when they're born. That's not gonna be cured in one or three or five years via election cycles. You have a terminal infection of culture and the sooner you come to grips with that, the better for everyone.

This country is actually hopeless at this point.

The Jesuits are actually about to do such, and they'll force America to give herself (and her corporation thereof) to the Jesuit Superior General. America is already used as the intelligence and military (Jesuit mercenary) capital of the world after all.

Unrelated but relevant, London is used as the trade and finance capital of the world, while Vatican City is the political and religious capital of the world. This is where your leaders get marching orders (including going to Occupied Palestine, to kiss and place their hand on the wall of a ruined Roman fort.