This is a lot of words for “Nothing can be done”. You balk at getting a ton of progressives elected, but you advocate getting a bunch of progressives to lead a revolution? You’re kind of hand waving over some huge details there.

It would be easier to get a shitload of progressives elected into positions of power in the US via the democratic party than it would be to lead a successful revolution to overthrow the US government, and I agree with your take on how difficult that would be.

It would be more difficult to build a third party that’s larger than the democratic party than it would be to infiltrate the party with progressives. You said it yourself, the money is center-right. The hard left parties need money, and small doner donations only work if your base is huge, which it isn’t for the hard left.

Historically, running as an independent or unaffiliated has a higher success rate than any other third party, especially at the local level where it matters the most, because those local politicians go on to run for state and federal positions once they build up enough clout.

The real issue is that very few hard-left people have gained the trust and support of the general population. Bernie, AOC and a handful of other progressives have managed to carve out a foothold in the Democratic party, but they’re a handful of people out of hundreds of millions. Where are all the good non-democratic-party leftist leaders? What is the PSL or anyone else doing to build their mind share with the voting public? This kind of “middle mile” groundwork is super important for parties. Having a pipeline of party-affiliated people to run as candidates nationwide is a huge job, and it’s something the Dems and the Republicans have locked down.

A leftist party in the US doesn’t have a base exact because the traditional laborer blocks are uneducated and kept ignorant by the ruling class. They also have very little money. That’s why the Dems go center right for votes. If the left wants to be taken seriously, it MUST participate, at ALL levels. AOC was a joke to the right when she was elected. This past election right-aligned PAC’s spent millions to kick the squad out of government and only succeeded in ousting two of them. IMHO, that’s indicative of a huge shift. Working to change the system works. It’s hard, takes a ton of energy, and a handful of people can’t do it alone.

This kind of opportunistic small-shifts is exactly how the GOP gained all of its power. Every step mattered, from the Karen advocating for banning books in her local elementary school all the way up to state governors passing abortion laws until one of them stuck. The far right has a pathological persistence that no organization on the left has come close to matching, and thats why the fascists are winning. They don’t stop.

You’re looking at it backwards:

They’re going to give public lands to themselves and their friends with this mechanism.

Ukranians can be Anonymous if they’re anonymous enough.

I choose to interpret this as “Barely a handful of people survived WW3, and only because they were protected from the radiation deep in their basement server rooms.” (No hate, I heart less than three 🐧)

I started doing the math on how many leopards gnawing on faces it would take to make the sound level dangerous and it made me kind of nauseous, but trust me, it was ballparking towards “a lot”. Probably way less than 70 million though.

Just a fun fact, the Tesla showrooms aren’t owned by a third party like a dealership, they’re owned by Tesla, so there’s no “screwing over a local business owner” here.

The first link is about a pro Israel PAC spending money against the Dems, so I’m not sure how relevant that is?

Of the others, the newest article is from 2019.

This is pretty tame compared to what their opposing party does, I’m not sure this is supporting your argument to the extent you want. Even Watergate is tame compared to most of the shit republicans have pulled since Obama won. I suppose you could cherry pick metrics, but honestly none of this is even bad enough to be compared to what republicans have done this week. They’re not saints, sure, but if your waiting to vote for a saint you might want to get a job as a Cardinal.

Your second link talks about an anti-trump strategy from the Clinton campaign that literally tried to highlight how stupid and vulgar he was, which only backfired because that’s what his supporters like about him

The third link is attempting to conflate some random hoax videos with the rumors of a “kompromat” pee tape putin supposedly had/has an trump, which doesn’t really have much to do with the Dems that I can tell.

The fourth link is about two Hillary supporters in 2016 admitting they spread the birther rumor, which again has what to do with the Dem party?

Yeah, of all of these, I guess the Clinton one is relevant, and yeah, everyone has long since agreed that was a terrible strategy, but I’m not sure how any of this is a smoking gun that, what, Dems are as bad as Republicans? I’m not really sure what point you’re trying to make.

Trump and the GOP aren’t just helping, they’re investing in the Palestinian extinction and planning to build golf resorts on their graves.

By all means, don’t participate until your perfect candidate comes along.

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Surveys adhere to industry best practices and are based on probability-based samples using random digit dialing with live interviewers calling landlines and cell phones.

Well at least we know who responded to the poll, people with landlines, people who answer their phone from unknown numbers, and people who hear the words “we’d like you to take a survey” and don’t immediately hang up in disgust.