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Timestamps:
0:00 - Patreon Plug
0:11 - Video Start
1:28 - Lesser evil voting is cowardly politics
2:00 - Why the democrats will NEVER carry out progressive reform
2:55 - The democrats and republicans are bankrolled by the ruling class
3:17 - How Biden has been disasterous for working people
8:03 - Biden the 'anti-racist' has been a disaster for minorities
12:25 - Summary of Bidens shitty politics
13:00 - A vote for the dems is a vote FOR fascism
14:15 - The democrats are FUNDING THE FAR RIGHT
14:45 - How the democrats could defeat the republicans once and for all (but never will)
18:00 - the democrats NEED the fascists around so you'll vote for them
20:00 - the democrats have NEVER represented you, they represent the billionaire elites
21:55 - At what point is 'blue no matter who' not enough? When do we finally fight?
22:25 - The democrats are not entitled to our vote, we owe them nothing, stop letting them blackmail and gaslight you
25:33 - Why you can't actually push the democrats left
27:20 - The case for a third party of American labor
30:45 - The democrats have nothing for us
32:15 - How YOU can personally advance the cause: Agitate, Educate, & Organize!
Web Articles:
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2022/12/03/grbw-d03.html
https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/05/politics/infrastructure-bill-house-democrats-voted-no-republicans-voted-yes/index.html
https://www.investopedia.com/here-s-what-s-in-the-usd1-trillion-infrastructure-bill-passed-by-the-senate-5196817#toc-a-quick-look-at-the-original-35-trillion-bill
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2023/09/12/urhk-s12.html
https://www.commondreams.org/news/biden-water-privatization
How & Why the Democrats Directly Fund the Far Right:
https://www.foxnews.com/media/washington-post-calls-out-democrats-funding-republican-extremists-primaries-shameless-dangerous
https://www.npr.org/2022/06/27/1106859552/primary-illinois-colorado-republican-candidate-democrats-ads
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/06/09/dems-meddle-in-colorado-senate-gop-primary-00038294
https://jacobin.com/2022/06/democrats-boosting-far-right-republicans-defend-democracy-republican-gop-primaries
I don’t disagree that both main parties are just puppets performing for the same master, but voting 3rd party is still participating in the system they have designed with the same illusion of choice, which is missing the point entirely. Still do it if you can, it’s literally the bare minimum, but don’t expect it to achieve anything in its own right, because it won’t.
The point of pointing out the illusion of choice is for people to realise that the whole thing is a sham - elections are theatre to keep the population from turning on those actually in control - the rich. Pinning all your hopes on elections and elected representatives in a system designed to work for the benefit of a group you don’t belong to, is never going to help you out of it. This kind of thinking is still falling in to their trap.
https://web.archive.org/web/20230803021951/https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/08/22/american-democracy-was-never-designed-to-be-democratic
https://libcom.org/article/capitalist-democracy-illusion-choice