2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Ticked off millennials are taking on the Democrats [View all]forjusticethunders
(1,151 posts)All those progressive Democrats we elected at all levels of government from dogcatcher to Senator have already gutted functioning government in places like Michigan, Kansas and Louisiana, in service to unchecked corporate pow--oh right, it's Republicans sitting in those seats.
And no matter how much you wish it, Democrats being defeated because they weren't progressive enough to vote for will move the political center RIGHT, not left. And in the end, it's YOUR POLITICS that has helped fuck over the poor and working class. When you sit out elections and get reactionaries elected, then that leads to policies that hurt the marginalized, AND robs them of allies because the people who are supposed to care about them decided they were too pure for politics, or wanted to fight a quixotic "fight" that fed their own ego and self-righteousness but won no actual gains for the working class.