niomi

If you live in a red state, try to catch up on your Drs appointments. If you are on the fence, get the screening. Try to get it all done by 2027. May the odds ever be in our favor.

The con result: Still very much a minority, my faction & our block made a big impact, increasing notoriety and power with our strategic positioning and savvy. We are, quite interestingly, considered a center-left block and are expected to be a swing vote. We're also leveraging the support of our youth comrades to expand our base; They play an underappreciated role in advancing our perspectives. Doing our best to prioritize class struggle over NGO-style rules has created inter-org tension, particularly with those who favor more structured, procedural-ist governance.

Personally, I do my best to encourage good faith in our more ultra comrades, (hello everyone, democracy says: I am not ultra) especially of the more anarchistic variety. Although I have made great strides in better connecting to the more USSR apologist type of ultra, as well. Big character development for me.

The fractures within the “center-right” (relatively, so like... Berniecrats, at right-ist) coalition opened up opportunities for us to gain more influence and stronger allies. However, potential general election candidates like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) and our mutual distancing could further complicate factional relationships. The major division, rather than left and right entirely, seems to be partyst (increase our independence from, or split, from democrats) and not (stick with democrats, “blue no matter who,” etc).

I am partyst. I have indeed so far been voting and also doing “blue no matter who,” although this can make me unpopular with many socialists who don't. but I am holding out to leverage in a mass exit from the Democrats, who have let us down and need a severe check on their power. I figure, the more consistent my support up to this point, the bigger mass of democratic party voters I bargain with, the more it'll hurt when we threaten to take it away from them.

Extreme times, desperate measures, etc.

For the time being, in my opinion, regardless of your feelings on party vs not, the move is still to vote. Keep voting, especially municipals, off-years, recalls, elections with merely hundreds or thousands of ballots, etc. And start looking into electoral reform. Ballot reform will be very important, RCV is gaining traction. This org likes STV, which is better. Ranked Robin is the best ranked system, however, and STAR & its variants are by far the best overall.

But, while you are voting, make up your mind. This will be the big question. We should leave those motherfuckers behind. they compromised too much and still lost. consequences, MFers. GENOCIDE IS BAD, ITS LITERALLY THE WORST THING EVER. if only you had won, your compromise might actually be looking kind of good right now, but you didn't and it doesn't. you took a calculated risk, and are bad at math. i hope it ends you.