Primary Uncommitted Voters: Lessons from Super Tuesday
Primary Uncommitted Voters
Lessons from Super Tuesday
The two ruling class parties are conspiring to leave voters with only two choices: an outright, fascist would-be dictator on one side, and a shameful apologist for war, Wall Street, and the status quo on the other side. But voters have showed that they can push back. In Michigan, Minnesota, and Hawaii they refused to back Biden and voted “uncommitted” by 13%, 19%, and 29% respectively
Voters are learning to organize independently and use their ballot as a strategic and tactical weapon – not just to reject war and genocide, but also to defend their other basic needs. They are connecting voting to ongoing organizing for racial and economic justice and beginning to transform non-voters and occasional voters into a social and political force.
The burning question today is how to defeat Trump and the fascist Project 2025 movement. Non-voting is not an option. Fascists are making serious, detailed proposals to ban books, ban abortions nationwide, drill-baby-drill for fossil fuel, strip people of their citizenship, expel Palestinians from Palestine, and round up literally millions of migrants, unhoused people, and anyone who protests.
Losing even our limited democracy will make it incomparably more difficult to secure our basic needs and fight for the beautiful, better world that is possible – a world with the housing, health care, reimagined police, migrant justice, reproductive freedom, education, and healthy planet that we need. Losing more democracy will only more completely stonewall the demands of the new peace movement for a permanent ceasefire in Gaza and freedom for Palestine.
The only way to defeat fascism permanently is to create a new system that meets people’s basic needs regardless of the ability to pay. The very technology that spreads misery in the private property economy makes it possible to create peace and abundance for all in a cooperative society. Voting strategically for the best path to meet our basic needs is the first step in that direction.
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Suggested Reading “Primary Uncommitted Voters: Lessons from Super Tuesday”: https://lrna.org/2024-the-war-for-democracy/
Program of the League of Revolutionaries for a New America:
https://lrna.org/lrna-program/
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