I know it sounds like I’m feeding into some Doomer vibe, or like I’m giving up. I’m not, I will absolutely continue going to food drives and joining the occasional protest if I can, but my serious question I’ve been kinda struggling with is whether registration for voting is even worth it? I mean in my area there aren’t really 3rd parties, just a bunch of Jackass Democrats and Greedy Republicans yelling about how they’re more American. I suppose there are some referendums, but nothing that really helps people especially. I remember in 2016(I was a lib) I had told a friend that not voting creates a more dangerous situation for POC and LGBTQIA people that we know personally. The fucked up thing about what I said is that it kinda ignores the sad reality that Democrats often toss aside these groups as sacrifices for a few more votes. So Idk how to proceed. My potential vote for a Dem governor will make me feel worse than when I voted for Biden bc I know better. I can tell myself that I genuinely didn’t know better when I voted for Biden, I was a Dem who was willing to do anything to beat the Far Right, and I got what I wanted, just not what I expected. Sorry for the long Body Text, but as a USA comrade in a strongly Blue State, is voting worth anything? Thank you.
If you have a lot of business interests it may be the case that whichever bourgeoisie party is in power matters to your bottom line due to different parties being partial to different taxation and regulatory policies.
IMO At the end of the day there is little to be gained by engaging in colonial political discourse unless you are somewhat wealthy. I think it is naive and undignified to participate in the process regardless of supposed lesser evils. In many ways it plays into the bourgeoisie worldview, that the poor and colonized are broken and in need of lofty democratic institutions upheld by wealthy colonizers and imperialists to save them. This creates a subservient, helpless, dependent attitude that communists should not glorify.
It may be that there are socialist organizations that try to gain new members during election cycles. I think this is mostly good, even if it doesn’t amount to much in terms of challenging and defeating capital. Many of us here on this platform likley came to alternatives to colonial discourse because a party like PSL was active during the election cycle. I myself met communists and came to communism while taking interest in the Green Party.
100% agree. The US has some of the lowest voter turnout largely because people realize that it doesn’t improve their lives, and both parties aren’t going to help them.
Voting for socialist / communist orgs is the one exception, because its at least a way to check our strength and numbers, but overall, participation in bourgeois politics pointlessley legitimates the system. Its like trying to fill a leaky bucket, ppl can do it if it makes them feel better but its not accomplishing anything.
Green party is interesting. My oldest brother voted for them bc he despised Hillary, which is fair. Jill Stein said she wants no funding to Ukraine. Based