when I make statements like this many seem to take it as a suggestion that I'm saying to vote third party or not vote at all. my general feeling is that if electoralism boils down to a center right govt vs a far right govt, ok, I guess option 1 is better. this is not a solution
there's a larger problem and it's not just about America. liberalism in the US, Canada, the UK, France, Australia & everywhere else has failed to meaningfully respond to the crises we are all facing. Liberals are in fact working for the very people profiting off all the misery
The Corbyn & Sanders campaigns have shown pretty conclusively that any populist left movement anywhere is going to be met with unified resistance from the ruling class and the immensely powerful media & political institutions they control. there may not be a way around that
with a few of the positive electoral victories we've seen lately in the US & elsewhere, you can kind of imagine a scenario in which eventually that turns into some kind of meaningful political change, but this is a decades-long project. we don't have that kind of time
we are reaching a breaking point. broad systemic change to our entire way of life has to happen right now but our institutions are designed to ensure that's impossible. everything is owned and operated by the same people benefiting from the system being set up this way
by all means, continue to participate in electoralism, especially locally, to make whatever positive changes around the edges of the status quo that are possible. actual change, the kind that needs to happen in order to not destroy the planet, is gonna have to come from elsewhere
