All of the establishment--sadly including progressive leaders--have fallen in line in promoting Joe Biden as the nominee to go against Trump.
The sad reality is that Biden is the worst candidate and people are at a loss as to who to vote for or what to do.
Jacobin recently released an article calling for people and progressives to not vote third party because it's futile.
While they're right that voting third party won't get us a win right now, the reasons people vote third party still matter.
We need to show the democrats they can't keep abusing people and giving nothing and expecting votes.
If we continue to participate in their sham democracy they'll continue to keep us hostage in this cycle.
Let's face it even running progressives under the Democratic party doesn't work either.
If they are lucky enough to win they end up capitulating to the establishment because they need to keep their positions inside the party.
We've seen this with some of the members of the squad.
The reality is we need to build third parties but that alone won't save us because we don't have fair and free elections.
Right now, we are living in an oligarchy where elections are controlled by the rich and powerful and presidents are selected not elected.
These last two presidential elections cycles prove that frankly, it's been like this for a long time.
Until we have fair and free elections nothing we want will happen.
So how do we get that if we don't buy into the two party system?
We don't give them our vote, but instead go outside the electorate and demand our basic needs in a form of a strike.
Period.
That's what it means to go outside the electorate.
We build a mass movement of all people of all political parties and affiliations and demand a rent freeze, demand a medicare for all system, demand debt forgiveness, and if they don't give us that we will not work or participate.
This is how things change, through movements, rarely ever through only the long-winded electorate process.
This is also how we get our power back.
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