A big Seattle name is in the election battlegrounds — helping Trump
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Seattle's star socialist, Kshama Sawant, said she wanted a revolution. Now she's trying to get one by campaigning to take Kamala Harris down in Michigan, columnist Danny Westneat writes.
  • MegaUltraChicken@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    No help from progressives

    These people are not progressives. They are accelerationsts. I considered myself a progressive and the only candidate in a position to further progressive goals is Kamala Harris. My goal is progressive change, I don’t give a flying fuck which politician we use to get there.

    The people voting 3rd party/not voting are actively harming progressive priorities, I don’t think they should get that label.

    • Todd Bonzalez@lemm.eeOP
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      9 months ago

      Okay, this is fair. I consider myself a progressive too, and I said that in jest. I do stand with progressives. “accelerationist” is way more accurate, and I absolutely despise people who think that letting the system collapse and crush all the people at the bottom is somehow going to start a revolution. You have to be very privileged and certain that you won’t be at the bottom getting crushed.

    • TheHiddenCatboy@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      9 months ago

      This. 100% this. If you want progress, you have to stop and look at who will be in office in January. Donald Trump…or Kamala Harris. No other names will take that Oath of Office, and this was set back all the way in July. If you wanted Progressive McProgressivestein in office, that person needed to be ran in the Primaries for the Democratic Party in July, which meant that candidate needed to be introduced to people long before then, as early as January 2020. And if your idea candidate didn’t win the Primaries, that means you couldn’t convince enough Democrats to vote for your candidate, and if you can’t convince Democrats to vote your guy or gal, how can you convince enough AMERICANS?

    • Cryophilia@lemmy.world
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      9 months ago

      These people are not progressives.

      And it pisses me off to no end that they’re trying to co-opt the Progressive label. No. Fuck you, get out. Tankies, accelerationists, and bothsidesers are NOT Progressives.