If they never field candidates that match your principles, you're under no obligation to be a supporter of that party.

What's stopping you?

Same billionaire owners, same entrenching of corruption, same imperialist agenda, same pro-genocide policies, same presidential names in the Epstein files. Both parties strengthen capitalist exploitation and maintain white supremacist, imperialist patriarchy.

At the core of it, the Democratic party is a tool for the Epstein class and a highly effective mask. Having a token liberal social policy lends legitimacy to a corrupt system, deflates pressure to change, and maintains billionaire control, while serving nothing of value to working people and leaving capitalism unchallenged.

Seriously: fuck your party. Why should working people get in line and vote for you? They continue to not show up because they are disenfranchised as a foregone conclusion before they walk into the voting booth.

Just checking in: has 'vote blue no matter who' been working well for you folks the last few elections? Last time I seem to remember dropping trans messaging since it was a perceived liability and trotting out Liz Cheney.

Fuck your genocide party and fuck the GOP. Our differences are not reconcilable. I'm not interested in a party run by liberal capitalists.

A few people here mentioning this has happened to someone they know. Does anyone have any successful transition to independence stories for older adults? There's someone in my family that I love, but that pretty much fits this description. Does anyone have advice on what helps?

Ah yes, clearly we are in dire need of an anastrophe as described by Marx and Engels in The Cenonite Chiroplect. Cephality is killing the planet, the ergate need to rise up.

Perfect fit unfortunately as MCU Spider-man mentor was an Elon Musk adjacent weapons manufacturer and he uncritically uses surveillance state tech.

-J Jonah Jacobin

Hello, I realize you're joking, but have you considered I am very serious?

No, not voting for either genocide party.

No one is obligated to vote for Democrats based on lesser evilism. We're circling the drain with a neoliberal/reactionary crisis cycle in perpetual imperial war while wealth keeps consolidating upward and working people get crushed. The billionaire donor base they solicit money from is the same, their economic and foreign policies are quite similar. Even when Democrats have achieved majorities at the state level they serve their masters, not the economic interests of the people.

Workers party now.

Well you know me best....

'Hiring' in what sense? You can 'hire' yourself and start if you're sympathetic and not already engaged. You don't even have to like or agree with the 'gun part' if you don't find yourself so inclined.

Knowing your neighbors and disaster prep is a good square one.

If you'd like to get involved in in your area, I'd suggest mutual aid networks, rapid response, and harm reduction groups. If you're looking for relevant skill building SRA, Stop the Bleed/First Aid trainings, and Meshtastic communities are also useful.

You'll find many of the same people are engaged in political actions, counter-protests, ICE watch, and labor organization. Helping organize responses, protests, and labor activity is a natural extension of building a broader community structure and helps connect the dots. When something like the Minnesota resistance to Metro Surge flares up, these sorts of networks are there to funnel the people's energies into productive activity.

Well friend, in the case of civil rights it depends on which layer of government you're talking about. In the case of Southern states the state governments were absolutely involved in violent action against black people through discrimination, incarceration, police abuses, and turning a blind eye to groups like the KKK or those committing violence against black communities. At the federal level, the security apparatus was definitely working in direct antagonism against Black liberation.

Please see this first hand account of why that sort of organization was needed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HnDONDvJVE

You and the other responder talking about civil war are fixating on a different question than self defense and community defense. Something like that is unfortunately entirely conceivable, but were not there. I'd look at Minnesota as a great example of the current level of conflict and how to push back on violent targeted state violence. Community organization and building connections with labor to stop the economic engine forced the government to retract the enforcement efforts of Operation Metro Surge. The people won that battle.