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People trying to stop an industrial war machine built on religious differences and racism by saying "I'm not voting for ______ until _____ happens" are ineffective idiots too stupid to understand the blatant bullshit they're peddling or the power they have in their vote.
If you want to change a politician's mind, you don't do it by dangling your vote on a carrot.
So many people on the Left ignore basic nuts and bolts politics and waste time, energy and votes on Utopian nonsense that most voters have never heard of.
Then, when someone like AOC comes along and actually makes effective changes in the Democratic Party, these Left folk attack her for not setting herself on fire.
Maybe I'm Ootl but I've never seen non-bot leftists attacking her.
I mean I may be wrong, I try not to live terminally online but you'd think I'd see that by now if it is so prevalent.
People trying to make change from within a system by rewarding politicians for being the lesser evil.
So how do you do it?
By stuffing large wads of cash in their pockets, as is tradition
https://www.vox.com/2014/4/18/5624310/martin-gilens-testing-theories-of-american-politics-explained