orc_princess

My point isn’t that everything is futile, but rather that a better democracy isn’t possible under capitalism.

That still doesn’t guarantee the military won’t take over, reactionary sentiments spread through propaganda, etc. Without a revolution there will never be true democracy.

Even an honest and well meaning politician will be blocked at every step. Like corporations and big businesses sabotaging key supply chains, media engaging in character assassination, and if all that fails then either a military coup or a literal assassination (like they did to Salvador Allende in Chile). Unless the politicians try to gain concessions from the ruling class in exchange for complacency, which means we still have our status quo.

For nationwide elections I agree there isn’t much of a choice, but I’d argue voting third party outside of swing states is still good to express dissatisfaction, and third parties and independents can still win in local elections.

Following this to its logical conclusion, we don’t have democracy because only Athenian democracy is democracy, they articulated it first.

Sure. I’m a Communist, surely we can meet halfway under a socialist platform. A politician should earn their votes, so it’s their choice really.

I feel like we’re all on edge after so many self proclaimed leftists dropped everything to defend Platner, and now that Trump is killing random ass civilians in the Caribbean and threatening to invade. I know that doesn’t mean people defending Mamdani on this quote are okay with imperialism by default, etc etc etc. Assuming you’re not okay with imperialism and random civilians being targeted by the US military we’re on the same side, I think.

You need to be anti-capitalist as a bare minimum to be a leftist in our view. I get what you mean though, “the left” can mean anything as it’s not a concept we universally agree on.