GOP flipped all 3 offices in VA today.

If this trend continues in 2022, then Republicans might fully control enough states to unilaterally change the US Constitution.

    • PorkrollPosadist [he/him, they/them]
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      3 years ago

      None of these bourgeois movements deserve the inflated mandate. Tipping the scale between factions will not bring us any closer to power. It will only bring us closer to the blame. Let them win with 20% of the electorate.

      • LilComrade [comrade/them]
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        3 years ago

        I don’t think abstentionism sends any kind of message to the ruling parties. They don’t give a fuck. They’re perfectly happy to win with 5% of the population voting for them as long as they get to use the full power of the office.

        • PorkrollPosadist [he/him, they/them]
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          3 years ago

          They will use any pretext to rule. Not voting doesn't send any more of a message to the ruling class than voting blue no matter who. It's more about sending a message to the masses. Chipping away at the legitimacy of the "democratic" institutions and making it blatant that they actually rule by force rather than by consent. For the same reason, it is not a program for revolution, since they rule by force anyway. You won't dismantle their police forces and armies by chooming on the couch. But it does make the whole media commentariat look like fucking clowns when they celebrate their mandate garnered from 5% of the population. It makes insurrectionary movements look that much more legitimate by comparison.