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Don't trust to hope. Volunteer for progressive candidates. Do research into your locals (avoid AIPAC -- www.trackaipac.com). Support local mutual aid efforts.

The polling I refer to was the Penn state survey. The professor who conducted it, Tamir Sorek, used the forced choice method -- making people commit to something as opposed to providing a neutral opinion. Results: 82% support forced expulsion.

Just feel the need to point out that we had 'better regulations'. The billionaire response to any effort to curb their excesses is fascism. This is why we must distinguish revolutionary change from mere reformism. Again, both can happen peacefully. But that does not make them the same.

The Israeli populace, unfortunately, is pretty onboard with the genocide. Get rid of Benjamin and watch the opposition do basically nothing different.

However, if it's a toothless change that doesn't adjust our trajectory ("Maybe give less money to Israel", "give the poors some tax credits"), then it is not praiseworthy. You don't change a decaying orbit by playing hopskotch on the surface.

Praise would be earned if the regulatory change, for example, completely disenfranchised billionaires from any political participation whatsoever. That would a massive change to way things usually work in this country, hence the arguable appropriateness of the word "revolution".

Why do you think DSA members are winning elections? Why do Democrats hate Chuck Schumer? It's because people are witnessing late stage capitalism at its worst and they ask, "is this the only way?" Some voices begin to answer "No!"

It's true that the word "socialist" is scary for people awash in red scare propaganda. But consider that basically every proposal to for beneficial stuff (uhc, anti-bribery, free or subsidized college, etc) is labelled "socialist". It's starting to not work anymore.

No political movement starts at universal consensus or even majority consensus. That's an impossible standard. Women's suffrage, LGBTQ rights, the end to segregation and Jim Crow, even democracy itself were never attained easily, without objection from the majority.

Fair enough, that's all good. Just to reinforce our point, there have been quite a few revolutionary changes in science that weren't particularly violent -- Copernican, vaccines, pennicilin (sp?). Revolutionary change in politics can also happen nonviolently, though admittedly less likely.

Nothing happens magically, you're quite right to point that out. I'm just a guy on Bluesky, so unfortunately I can make no prophecies on the golden path to victory. But what I do know is that if we want UHC, the Democratic Party must have that explicitly as part of their platform.

I do agree that the word "revolution" has a lot of baggage that has unfortunately confused the issue here. It does tend to make people reflexively startled, which is understandable. Violent revolutions, even if the reasons they happen are "good", are never pretty. Damn the char limits.

I was not referring to violent revolution -- remember, there are many kinds of revolution. I was referring to a general need for fundamental change, not advocating anything specific. In theory, such change could happen electorally. We've already had strong successes on that front.

It's clear that this country absolutely needs revolutionary change to survive the next few decades. Remember, the status quo got us here. Reaganism got us here. Neoliberal technocrats got us here. There's a way out of this, but it will be hard.

I'll vote for Democratic candidates who are not merely Republicans with a mask. There are minimum requirements that some don't meet.

Centrism is where we were before. But after before, we got here. Why try the same thing, hoping that our grandchildren won't experience the very same suffering 60 years from now?

It's too little, too late for the dems who haven't been doing much until DSA candidates showed them what to do. That being said, I'm sure the aid of active, passionate Democrats with a desire to fix this country at the root is most welcome.

Teach yourself.

Yet more reasons to socialize the commanding heights of the economy.

Pretty sure this is ragebait, but you can just look at the DSA website for their platform. Most of the candidates are not white, at any rate.