• GraniteM@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    socialists and communists don’t vote for right wing POS like Democrats or Republicans

    As long as this is true, especially in primaries, then they will continue to ignore your demands. Not out of malice or even greed, but because a vote that categorically cannot be got must be ignored, since any effort spent trying to get it is wasted.

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      A patently absurd comment when Republicans ran on affordability in 2024 and there was a red wave. And then Zohran ran on affordability in 2025 and demolished the centrists.

      And affordability = socialism to Democratic partisans.

      You should be posting this in ‘confidently incorrect’.

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        Zohran is a Democrat. He won his primary because enough people who cared about his policies believed in him and voted for him. One without the other is useless. Getting people who care about socialist policies to get out in numbers and vote in primaries is how we force the Democratic party to become more socialist. If we took every self-described socialist in America and convinced them to either not vote, or only ever vote third party, then it would achieve the goal of handing more electoral power to Republicans. Engaging, voting in, and winning Democratic primaries is how to achieve the goals we want to achieve.