Totally, I hear you. I’ve missed maybe 3 elections as an adult, and iirc they were off year primaries. I tried to vote Nancy Pelosi out of office for not being liberal enough. I live in SF and have the privilege to do that. I vote left up and down the ballot. Except president. Because that’s not what’s actually happening here. I don’t like it, and my vote may not matter anyway in California since 1988, but we’re debating christofascist autocracy vs capitalist oligarch republic, not liberal vs conservative. And any mf that can’t see that and considers not voting for the lowest denominator electable Dem is naive or immature. It doesn’t matter what one wants, reality matters. And the reality is half the country has forced us to have that election instead of an actual presidential one. So I’m fighting two party system (successfully) electing and supporting out of state friends running campaigns, for DSA candidates. Not by being unrealistic about how close we are to losing our democracy altogether bc I’m salty that the Dems are as centrist as they’ve ever been. I’m not a centrist, I’m just not living with my head in the sand or the clouds. I got downvoted above… People aren’t realistic. This is our reality today. One needn’t like it, but one must accept it. 🤷
Totally, I hear you. I’ve missed maybe 3 elections as an adult, and iirc they were off year primaries. I tried to vote Nancy Pelosi out of office for not being liberal enough. I live in SF and have the privilege to do that. I vote left up and down the ballot. Except president. Because that’s not what’s actually happening here. I don’t like it, and my vote may not matter anyway in California since 1988, but we’re debating christofascist autocracy vs capitalist oligarch republic, not liberal vs conservative. And any mf that can’t see that and considers not voting for the lowest denominator electable Dem is naive or immature. It doesn’t matter what one wants, reality matters. And the reality is half the country has forced us to have that election instead of an actual presidential one. So I’m fighting two party system (successfully) electing and supporting out of state friends running campaigns, for DSA candidates. Not by being unrealistic about how close we are to losing our democracy altogether bc I’m salty that the Dems are as centrist as they’ve ever been. I’m not a centrist, I’m just not living with my head in the sand or the clouds. I got downvoted above… People aren’t realistic. This is our reality today. One needn’t like it, but one must accept it. 🤷