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I'm not surprised. They can't win at anything else, so they create an artifical wedge issue to splinter multiple coalitions of voters while simultaneously making it more difficult for them to vote. This makes the republican party stronger despite their support being largely anemic. Gerrymandering doesn't help, but democrats don't vote in high enough numbers.
They will continue to pry away women, queer people, and POC while simultaneously shouting that "voting won't do anything, why even bother?" To standard groups. And young people will buy it and think the only way to change is through protests, not voting.
There. I just disassembled the republican playbook in 5 minutes. Watch it work.
Yep, I remember watching something on him. I always try to get my friends, family, and peers to vote. It's led to some razor thin elections wins locally, by a margin of just 1,200 votes in the largest city in our state. Suffice to say, voting actually works.
I often tried to bring reality into the conversation in these cases. Ask basic questions, how will millions get food when grocery stores are closed and roads are bombed out or sabotaged? What would stop the food producers from starving us out and protecting land preventing us from taking it? What about nuclear weapons? you can't just leave them be. What about other countries? they're not going to watch the most powerful military and economic power from the sidelines.
You want to win against capitalists? We need to learn to live without them first. Organized shared food production, libraries for everything, vote, run for office to get the boot off us a bit, try to change culture, etc. What not to do? Revolution fighting our enemy at their strongest, or protesting giving them an event to sabotage and an excuse to hurt us, or boycotts, they've figure out business structures, methods, and scales to neuter these.