I know that November is five months away, so this is a little early, but the intensity to which U.S. adults pressure others to vote, even if they’re vaguely familiar with how corrupt the system is, utterly baffles me.
When we explain our abstinence, voters almost never respond with anything like ‘Yeah, I can understand. You do you.’ Normally it’s a generic ‘fuck you’ reply or pathetic begging. ‘Yeah, I know that the two candidates with any chance of winning are very similar and they might break their promises anyway because the material conditions have far more influence on their decisions… but still this guy might end up being 0.1% less awful than the other guy so please, please, PLEASE VOTE PRETTY PLEEEEEEEASE!!!’
What I hate most of all, though, is how people tear each other apart over these glorified public opinion polls, blaming everybody but the upper‐class scum who imposed this system on us in the first place. It’s normal for voters to chastise others for selecting a minor candidate because that’s a ‘wasted’ vote, and both they and the abstainers get the blame for another awful candidate winning, because that’s easier than blaming the upper classes. Ugh. That concludes my rant.
Nothing but a violent revolution will actually change anything, but you can still flip the question on electoralism and ask them why they don’t vote for a third party and condemn the country to a two party hellhole. They will still claim that it’s “a vote for Trump” but it might get them to think outside the narrow box that every American is allowed to think inside.
‘I John Brown am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away, but with Blood.’. True when he said it. Still true today.
Revolutions aren’t successful unless they have some ties to those in power. So we need some comrades in office before making plans like that.
Communists would never be given real power within a system that is built and enforced around the capitalists.
The power the working class has doesn’t need any office or government legitimacy, it exists no matter what. It’s the power of producing everything a society requires to function and massively outnumbering the bourgeoisie. When the working class organises, material conditions are bad enough, and the right opportunity arrives, the working class is unstoppable.