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Stop climate change, stop killing Palestinians, economic justice for working people
There are various strategies you could use for any of the three, with various levels of timeframe involved and chance of success and all, but "let Trump come to power" is not a real good solution to any of them, to me. "Stop supporting the Democrats until they suddenly decide to start supporting them" also seems weird to me and unlikely to succeed. People have been not caring about politics (with every righteous reason) for quite a while now, and it doesn't seem to have made the politics or the level of leftism progress in the equation any higher, to me.
There are a significant subset of leftists who explicitly believe that democracy is not a path forward because it's co-opted by capital and they're not even all Marxists.
Of course they have no interest in supporting Cornel West.
Yeah. Those guys I'm fine with. I was around in the 90s, man; you don't have to tell me that the Democrats don't have my back.
My point is that that subset doesn't spend all their time on political forums picking on the DNC. Their time on the internet in my experience is spent in anarchist / activist forums or just on other, non political things; their not caring about electoral politics is a lot more universal and they don't get all amped up talking about it or want to spend all their time on it (and specifically spend all their time on criticisms of only one of the parties, a lot of which are sort of made up and weird if you look at them closely.)
Probably not. I don't know what the right strategies are, assuming they exist at all, but, yeah, that's probably not it.