LogFAQs > #980111849

DrizztLink posted...

Do you think nobody here does that?

That comment was not just about the people on CE, it's a response to the overall state of the Democratic Party. The vast majority of the people who believe that democracy is at stake don't do much more than vote. That's why all our democratic institutions like our unions, media, many local parties, etc are all broken and corporatized compared to what they used to be. Whenever they speak about their own vision of what fighting fascism entails, it starts and ends at electoral politics, at most voter registration and GOTV/phone banking. To permanently win over fascism, it'll take a lot more than that.

Cemith posted...

Telling people to vote against fascism isn't helpful?

You said a bunch of shit that means nothing.

I've never said that. Because I don't believe that. Voting is necessary, but it's just one part of a larger constellation of strategies. Simply talking about voting alone creates a disengaged citizen that can't really influence or exercise power because voting is a one time act every few years, it doesn't build organizations that influence elected officials or the media, it can be blocked or ignored by those very officials or the courts, or the the military or the police etc, it can be influenced by historical events, and without the other strategies, it's not sufficient to sustain a working democracy.