We ARE in favor of voting! - Discussing voting in a capitalist system and lesser-evilism
Hello everyone! As the current US presidential elections approach, we’ve had an increase in liberals often bringing up that we advocate for not voting at all, but this couldn’t be farther from the truth. Another point they make is that Kamala Harris is the “lesser evil” of the two candidates, which is also not true.
1- About voting, people should definitely vote. If socialists or communists (the PSL is an example) are on your ballot for the presidential election, please vote for them so that socialists as a whole can gauge the numbers of revolutionary socialists out there (also, getting 5% of votes makes a party eligible for federal funding). This will be especially important as the inability of Capital to resolve its contradictions leads to increasing and deepening crises that we can already see are not alleviated when a Democrat is in office. If you've got any direct election ballot issues like abortion rights or marijuana legalization or even a tax levy for your school district or something, vote for those.
“Even where there is no prospect of their being elected, the workers must put up their own candidates to preserve their independence, to gauge their own strength, and to bring their revolutionary position and party standpoint to public attention. They must not be led astray by the empty phrases of the democrats, who will maintain that the workers’ candidates will split the democratic party and offer the reactionaries the chance of victory.” - Karl Marx
2- On “lesser evil”, we aren't of the opinion that "both options are equally evil" or that one is a lesser or a greater evil. Both options are capitalists. They are the same option. Kamala and Trump represent the capitalist class. Their victory is the victory of the capitalist class. Picture a guy with a puppet on each hand. The left hand is named Biden. The right hand is named Trump. The owner of these puppets is putting on a Punch and Judy show. People are very mad at us for recognizing that it's a Punch and Judy show.
3- Before you ask about Project 2025, and everybody always does, realize that it's just the fancy name they've given this time to the process of all the political appointees in the executive branch getting changed out for different political appointees. Policies of Project 2025 have already been slowly being passed along the years, this is just more of it. The right wing is pitching it this time as "Project 2025", last time it was "Drain the Swamp". The capitalist party are capitalists, this is a product that they are selling. Literally, as they sell hard copies of it for $35 to credulous marks on their website. It's a great trick, its intended to convince conversatives that the impossible things they desire are possible and there's a plan in place for them to be enacted, they just have to wait and Trust The Plan. It is also used by the democrats to convince liberal voters that there's an even greater threat than the genocide the Biden administration is an eager accomplice in and that Kamala will happily continue to fund, so they need voters to donate and stay engaged. I'm surprised there's not a liberal Project 2025 project yet, liberal voters are panicking because there clearly isn't a countering plan.
4- Liberals’ excuse for voting democrat is ALWAYS just “vote for the lesser evil and then we’ll push them left!” while the democrats constantly shift more and more to the right between elections. Do you know how many anti-LGBT bills were introduced under Biden only in 2023? A record number of five HUNDRED and ten. https://edition.cnn.com/politics/anti-lgbtq-plus-state-bill-rights-dg/index.html . Roe v. Wade got overturned under Biden. The immigrant crisis got worse under Biden.
When faced with these facts, liberals like to deflect with “well that was not Biden’s fault, he can’t control everything on the US, you clearly don’t know how the legislative and executive branches work!”. If that’s so,