fullpraxisnow:leftist-daily-reminders:The Left needs to organize outside of the Democrats and outsid
fullpraxisnow:leftist-daily-reminders:The Left needs to organize outside of the Democrats and outside of establishment liberalism.“In reality, as a mechanism of political engagement, the vote is one of the most powerful methods to discipline citizens along a patriarchal, heteronormative, and capitalist status quo. It encourages people to give themselves over to a corrupt social order in return for promises of reform which the state and its power elite have no obligation to fulfill. Put simply, rather than a mechanism for positive change, the vote is often a powerful means of managing — and obstructing — progress.”– Organize or Die: Never in the History of the World has an Election Destroyed a System of Oppression -- source link