No mental gymnastics are needed when they straight up don’t know how their own government works.

A better candidate did run. Any candidate who ran was better

There are lot of problems. The biggest is funding.

Most politicians come from money. Not all, but a good number. This, oddly enough, can make them a bit more independent since they don’t have special interests demanding their time to get their money. But depending on their motives for running, this can also make them very susceptible to corruption to make their money back.

If you don’t have money, you have to raise it. You can either do this by meeting with special interests (oil, pharma, etc.) and be their lapdog or you can solicit money from the public. Both have their pros and cons in terms of getting elected, staying elected, and making sure you can do the work you set out to do.

Let’s assume you have money and it’s untainted.

The second biggest problem you have is name recognition. If you are a nobody, no one is going to elect you. You have to earn name recognition by either winning several smaller elections, by being active in the community, or by being famous. Usually if your rich, you have name recognition so you can usually skip this step. But if you’re not, and you’re raising money the old fashion way, you need to get your name out there. You remember Joe Exotic? You know him because he ran a ridiculous campaign.

Let’s assume that you’re active in the community and you have pretty good name recognition.

The hardest hurdle is going to be that you have almost half of your electorate actively rooting against you.

IMO, the reason why you don’t see many young people in politics, even at the local level, is because all three of these steps seem so insurmountable. I looked into it. I never formed a committee or anything but the amount of money alone you have to raise is crazy.

You need a thick skin and you need to be willing to compromise, either your morals or your values, often both.

That’s why organization matters, it has to be big and it has to be sudden. “Importing” labor isn’t immediate.

More likely they’ll use back to work legislation and deploy the police, but then they’ll remember why we have labor protections.

If they’re going to tear up the social contract and take everything away from us then they’ll see violence.

These laws exist because workers fought actual battles. Actual battles, domestically. If it must happen again it will.

By its nature it’ll vary in each community, political parties are always a safe bet, most areas will have socialists or communists and whether or not you identify as one of those they’ll likely have resources for labor organizations in the area. I’m not suggesting that everyone has to be a leftist, but just that leftists have been doing this work for decades and tend to organize.

The IWW union is an international union that provides support to people looking to organize their workplaces.

On the topic of unions, I’m sure most unions in your city would be willing to help answer your questions and give you guidance. They might have websites where you can reach out to ask for advice.

Your city’s pride parade or other socially conscious events like demonstrations will also see participation from these kinds of groups. It can be a good way to see what groups are operating in your city. For example your city might still have student protest encampments for Palestine on university campuses. Unions and political groups go to these and put material up at these.

Do that Google search! Looking for leftist, socialist, communist, anarchist, or labour unions based on trade in your city is actually not a bad way to get started.

I’m new to direct action myself and others might have better suggestions.

It’s ok to start small, like a community garden even. These are all part of a broader network that you’ll have exposure to once you are looking.

don’t know where to start looking

Ergo first order of business, construct such list.

Same.

I hate self important douche bags who are so used to basking in their own fart clouds that they can’t see how sanctimonious they are and can’t come to terms with the fact that maybe their fart sniffing ideology doesn’t work for all 300M other people in this country.

Especially when they turn around and call their political opposites sanctimonious fart sniffing hypocrites without acknowledging their own hypocrisy. It annoys me.

See the nation is healing already!

“Genocide Joe” passed more meaningful legislation for average Americans then most presidents. But the conservative propaganda machine won and made him seem like the devil incarnate because stupid Americans can’t discern fact from fiction.

Your reading comprehension skills suck. The original commenter mentioned TWO types of idiots. 1) the morons that voted third party, and 2) the defectives that ABSTAINED from voting.

I guess your brain only came equipped with 8GB of RAM, because you acted like OP gave you some clever GOTCHA moment by only mentioning 3rd party voters, while you completely disregarded OP including group #2 as well.

In the future, I recommend you avoid complex tasks, like, say, chewing gum and walking at the same time.

They are just angry and trying to blame other people for their shitty candidates loss. If they can scapegoat other voters they can feel superior, it’s basically all to protect their fragile feelings.

Kind of sad really

Crows got to straw man I guess

I appreciate the optimism about being able to vote in the future

The dominant forces in the Democratic party are more likely to abandon trans people than to shift left.

A big part of the problem is that Democrat supporters are overwhelmingly politically inactive. Instead of shushing anti-genocide voices, climate protestors, etc. they should be joining and amplifying those voices not just around election time but always, constantly.

The DNC will always fast-track a centrist candidate and suppress progressive candidates if there’s no political pressure outside of election time. They get their money from the same people that the Republicans do.

“Vote blue no matter who” and voting as the only political action guarantee the ratchet effect.

He certainly grabbed this country I live in right in the pussy.

And that’s what makes them nitwits

Heritage Foundation has been working on that since the 1970s, but yeah, it is the most updated and calibrated plan of action.