You Know I Think The Idea That Electoral Politics

neonbluebell:

thepeacockangel:

Keep people from doing grass roots/revolutionary organizing is kind of bull.

Voting takes like max 15 minutes, unless yr polling place is really busy or far away (and it shouldn’t be).  You can vote, and then devote the rest of your time to building mass social movements.

Seriously.

Reform vs. revolution is kind of a false dichotomy.

I feel like it’s an intentionally false dichotomy for the purpose of propaganda. The thought being that reform doesn’t/can’t work, so presenting voting as anti-revolutionary/non-radical is part of trying to energize radical politics and encourage budding lefties to abandon the system as it stands.

It’s clever, but the whole thing feels greasy and manipulative because of that.

Vote because it’s a tiny bandaid for the gigantic open wound that you can do quickly, organize the revolution because that’s the only way to stitch up the wound