Barabas [he/him]

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Cake day: August 2nd, 2020

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  • If more people unconditionally voted for the lesser evil surely that will push them left instead of continuing to creep to the right. There will be as many Manchins as needed to hinder anything even marginally good happening if they win no matter the margin.

    If you’re going to do electoralism you have to understand that your vote is the main bargaining chip. The people who stay home do more to push the democrats left than someone going in to vote blue no matter who. The thing pissing me off by the people who are supposedly on the left constantly telling people that they have to vote is that they don’t even understand (or pretend not to) electoral politics.



  • It is a lot harder to convince people who have seen and interacted with him in real life of the demonisation that the British press has ran on him since he became Labour leader. He is one of the few MPs that legitimately seems to care about his constituents rather than just seeing them as a means to an end.

    Mandelson seething was great to hear. Labour wasted a lot of resources trying to unseat Corbyn. Not that it is a big comfort with 5 more years of Tory rule followed up by an inevitable far right landslide when reform and the conservatives consolidate again. Only reason that Labour won is because the Tories were finally allowed to collapse when the alternative was a continuation of their policies, vote share for Labour was about the same as the 2019 election.









  • They could have just used the one that is simply true, incumbents are at a huge advantage in elections and are unlikely to be primaried unless they fuck up monumentally. Since the ghouls are unlikely to release their claws from power until they die we end up with older and older politicians.

    Also, the changes in voter patterns they’re showing is largely just shifting demographics. It isn’t that people under 50 were more likely to vote in 96, it is that there are a lot more people over 50 as a percentage of the population.