cross-posted from: https://lemmy.librarysocialism.social/post/61306
The US Senate on Monday voted in bipartisan fashion to advance a fossil fuel industry-backed permitting reform bill that would weaken the Clean Water Act and other key environmental protections to make it easier for the federal government to streamline energy projects—including climate-wrecking gas pipelines.
This is exactly what we need to point to whenever someone says vote blue no matter who.
I actually did vote for one Republican locally because he was experienced and could get the job done. All the rest dems and every one of them lost because of gerrymandering.
But they cheated and still lost nationally, so fuck them. Hope is not lost. If you’re in a red district, you can still call and request that minority leader not be an AIPAC whore. Tell them you’ll vote them out.
When are we burning shit?
Depends. Is it Primaries season, or is it the General election?
If the former, then vote progressives in.
If the latter, show me in the races these Democrats were elected where the Republican wasn’t objectively worse on practically every issue.
I don’t think that is a gotcha once you consider the full context.
Voting blue is not an assertion that the Democrats are good.
The problem is that our culture is so rotten and voting system so broken that the other viable choice is nazi dictatorship on top of being even MORE capitalist and corrupt and destructive.