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Americans of Lemmy, what is your approach to next year's election? (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago by Jordan_Jordan@lemm.ee to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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2020 was... truly unique. It was so hard to stay away from doom scrolling, and I (and many others) were pretty disillusioned by the sad fact that so much of our country legitimately supported the Orange Man. I didn't get a wink of sleep the night of the election because I genuinely considered it to be a make or break decision for America.

My point is that looking back on it, in the end the only real difference I made was at the ballet box. This year I'm going for the Head-in-the-Sand approach. I'm done with the political memes. Done with the Twitter screenshots. It just riles me up and this year I'm gonna do my best to fight that.

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[–] PowerCrazy@lemmy.ml -5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Voting is the least you can do, so I will choose to vote against Capitalists and not for genocide. If you can't even do that bare minimum, you don't deserve democracy.

[–] TheFriar@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

…what anti-capitalist do you think you’re voting into office?

[–] PowerCrazy@lemmy.ml -4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The PSL candidate.

[–] starbreaker@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

PSL are a bunch of losers. They can't even win local elections, let alone put any of their people in state or Federal offices.

[–] PowerCrazy@lemmy.ml -4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'd be happy to vote for someone better who isn't pro-capitalist and pro-genocide, who do you suggest?

[–] starbreaker@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How about you vote for yourself? Who else can you trust to represent you if not yourself?

[–] PowerCrazy@lemmy.ml -4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's a bit cliche and a little too individualistic for what is supposed to be literally rule by the people, so I'll gladly embrace the democratic ideal of voting for the organization I think will not support genocide and is not capitalist. After all it is literally the least anyone can do.

[–] starbreaker@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Meh. It's your vote. And it doesn't really matter anyway.

[–] DarkGamer@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

The Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL) is a communist party in the United States. PSL was established in 2004 and claims to be active in a wide range of social movements. PSL describes its primary goal as the overthrow of capitalism and the institution of socialism.

Yeah, that sounds viable. 🙄