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The important thing is to organize, and recognize the futility of relying on voting within bourgeois "democracy" to bring about positive change.
While we’re busying “organizing”, would it be ok to take 20 minutes out of our day once a year to go vote for the lesser of two evils? Because on the off chance it might take us a while to get organized, one of the two major parties will probably still be in power.
It's not 20 minutes every year. It takes all the air out of the room for the entire interval between elections. It wastes the time of the would be most politically active people for years on end.
We're already talking about "if you don't vote for Newsome you're voting for Trump"
The lesser of two evils is voting for a working class party like PSL.
Yes, that can be tactically advantageous, depending on your circumstances. Just leave it at that. Don't pour all your energy in electoralism, campaigning and following news around those.
I agree with you and principal, But do you really believe that if people voted the other way in the last election we wouldn’t be seeing net less suffering right now?
Well you'd be SEEING less thanks to the likelihood of copmala having way better pr but in reality us of the periphery and USian minorities would still be subject to much the same just with a better spin for the Euro-Americans.
Remember Obama destroyed Libya. The Clinton's bombed Yugoslavia and Iraq as well as the entire Somali debacle.
In reality if you see non white suffering as counting odds are the net would be within the error bars if you graphed it.
That's certainly hard to directly claim either way, but the concept of "voting for the lesser of two evils" is partially responsible for what got us here.