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Tankies actively say voting doesn't matter. I get their critiques and they are valid, but to not vote is to give up an important front in the class war for no reason. It also means that the progressive movement won't grow (either in the dem party or independently)
Which is why I'm saying tankies are also keeping us from shifting left in this regard.
That isn't the problem, though. The reason why Kamala Harris lost isn't because a bunch of tankies convinced people that voting doesn't matter. Kamala Harris herself convinced them that voting didn't matter.
Hey, it wasn't all Kamala's fault! Biden also helped convince them that voting doesn't matter. As well as Obama... and a bunch of other Democrats.... and the DNC.....
Federal elections are still just one of many. Tankies aren't even at least trying to go state and local; which matter even more. Then they wonder why they have no one in office. I get the deck is stacked, but they are also not doing much grass roots either.
Again its only one part of the class war, but its still one that matters a lot