Oh "the left" ! How does one channel the energy and passion of this voting block* into something productive?
Rashida Tlaib found a solution. A way to express anger. Of course centrist liberals hate it.
Getting more people to show up and vote in a primary ensures they are in the system and know where to vote. It's excellent practice. If writing "Uncommitted" is motivating that's great.
I saw a post the other day about a guy on here who raised a few 100,000 dollars for Biden. That's great. I could not participate in that myself.
But I can register people to vote. Make the case for a null vote in the democratic primary and then in the general election there isn't really a choice. Which sucks.
Biden will win his primary. The "uncommitted" vote is noting but a symbolic act. It's one worth doing and not at all harmful to the broader shared goals of left and center.
It's important that people have experiences voting that make them want to vote again.
The "uncommitted" campaign is a chance casting that vote then seeing the outcome could give more people a sense of agency and meaning that has been missing from voting.
Voting has been like shoving dry sand (the sand is fascism) as the wind buries you in a dune.
This thing where centrists panic if the left does any little thing needs to stop. Some people couldn't deal with John Stuart calling Biden "old"
Centrists worry that the left will "get confused" and vote for a third party, or not at all in the general in mass numbers because of this campaign. This worry is kind of insulting to the political savvy of your ... allies?
I could loudly worry that centrists will "get confused" if Republicans realized (at last) that Trump is a bad candidate and replace him with someone just as bad like Haley.
@futurebird imagine a MASSIVE decade long campaign to revamp the entire system into a multiparty proportional voting on issues and not buffoons or supermen.
@futurebird Isn't there some hopeless-but-idealistic candidate people could vote for in the primary? I worry that "uncommitted" pools together "Biden is too far to the right" with "too far to the left", "too old", "buying too many trains", "not buying enough trains", etc. It's showing up to the protest with a blank sign.
I've been voting for my favorite in the primary and the best remaining candidate in the general for years.
I like the point about using the primary to test/practice, especially if you're a target of voter supression.