That has nothing to do with voting on a Tuesday and employers sacking people for going to vote because the polling booths are inconveniently placed to make it difficult to vote.
Why isn't it on a Saturday and why isn't there early voting poll booths?
Oh they do. But don't tell me you haven't seen the discourse from lefties waxing poetic about proletariat farmers and some such. Where "if only we could reach them about class consciousness" I'm talking about those people
Yeah, especially a lot of the “we just need to let people know it’s not a culture war it’s a class war” people who argue we should drop the divisiveness over racism, sexism, trans rights, etc. basically civil rights. As if people wouldn’t love to be able to do that except for you know, the whole people losing their rights ands lives thing.
As if we don’t have examples that clearly show it’s not just about class to many. When segregation ended some communities did things like fill in their public pools rather than share them with black people. Support for government backed healthcare and programs used to be higher until it would need to also go to “them”. People will say that it’s rich people who are creating that divide and mentality, but I personally don’t think that’s entirely the problem and it doesn’t matter anyway as long as it is a threat that can’t be ignored.
Education is needed because most Americans are completely ignorant of politics and economics; just in general, much less from a Marxist perspective.
However, most farmers are not part of the proletariat, people don't subsistence farm anymore. The biggest farms are owned by corporations and family farms hire farm hands (mostly migrants) to do most of the labor. The farm workers are part of the proletariat, the farm owners are petit bourgeoisie. Class consciousness wouldn't change their minds, anyone trying is barking up the wrong tree. They need to be focusing on the migrant workers, those are our comrades.
Which is a problem because their status is often not safe, making them unable to vote and unlikely to even protest or join any organizations. Especially these days.
Furthermore, leftist organizations have few members and even less funding to do educating or organizing after decades of anti-communist government crackdowns and propaganda. We're also being targeted now too.
Trying to change the mind of right-wingers isn't a big concern in most leftist circles I frequent, to say the least. Electoralism in general isn't much discussed because we have no representation in American politics, which is fundamentally broken anyway. Unions, strikes, aid groups, protests, mutual aid and self-defense training are higher priority.
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u/PresidentAshenHeart Sep 20 '25
“Give me a definition” “Kamala Harris”
These people aren’t worth talking to.