"The biggest political obstacle today to independent working-class political action—not just in the United States—is lesser-evil thinking. Every working-class vote for the lesser-evil bourgeois politician is another step away from building a real working-class alternative. And every vote for a bourgeois politician helps reproduce bourgeois politics. … The justification is always that failing to support the lesser evil allows the “greater evil,” the reactionaries, to win. A major problem with this argument is its lack of clarity about what reaction actually is and how it advances. One thing is certain: the logic of capital dictates that unless there is a real working-class alternative, bourgeois politics will keep moving to the right—especially in the context of the still-unfolding crisis. Every delay in the pursuit of independent working-class political action only emboldens reaction.”
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.Which is why I reject the bullshit of centrist Dems who try to shame, bully, and blame me for not supporting their corporate Dems against Trump. I would rather vote my conscience than be complicit in helping them continue to move the Dem party to the right. I'll be damned, figuratively, before I will vote for Repub Bloomberg over Trump this time, instead of voting Green again.
TomMcGiverin
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Most voters in the 2 party system don't understand this. It's not a surprise that our political system has steadily moved more and more to the right since at least Bill Clinton. I might just have some modern bias though because I grew up in the 80s and 90s and it could have been as far back as FDR. They saw that FDR was helping poor people and they were like oh no we need to turn this thing around as much as we can before it messes up our system of manipulation.
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