What have the Democrats done in the last 10 years to stop the GOP? Every ossue America faces comes from infettered capitalism eating away at society like a cancer, but they still egg it on. The party exists to collect corporate donations and make people feel like they can change their lives if they just vote a little harder.

Voting for either right wing party doesn't move to the left either

lol

"Both sides bad" is a thought terminating cliche designed to deter people from honestly comparing the two parties and seeing the gulf between them. I'm not defending the dems. I'm not defending the two party system. I'm not defending any of it.

There is an active authoritarian takeover of our country, which is right now taking away people's rights. Harassing them for what they say, and shipping them out of the country without even the token gesture of checking their legal status. They have already tried to prevent a peaceful transfer of power, and confidently talk about ending term limits.

For some reason supposed leftists have no interest in this, and would rather do the far right's work for them. Do you think these things would be happening no matter who was in power? Push the party left in primaries and local elections, fight for ranked choice to make third parties viable, call out the dems when they do something bad. Don't pretend the two sides are the same, and don't imply that voting is a waste or counter-productive.

RE your edit: Why are you so antagonistic to people saying it's important to vote against the far right? Mamdani was the clearly better option, and I hope his proposals are proven effective. This is the kind of local election win that can nudge the party to the left. Just don't disown him the moment he is seen working with dem leadership.

How does it do that? The winner will be red or blue. Your options are whatever fascist the red side puts up, or whatever the blue side puts up. If you vote in primaries, maybe the blue option will be good. But even if it's a corporate shill, that's still a better outcome than the fascist.

If withholding your vote, or voting for a third party with no chance of winning, was going to make the DNC change their approach, it would've worked in 2016. We got Biden in 2020, obviously that strategy isn't working.

If you want progressives off the sideline, they need support in the primaries. Ignoring electoral strategy is so fucking stupid.

you are deciding that is worse. the meme does not make that value judgement.