@shoq Because "vote" is still the right answer if you don't want to become that which you loathe.
@LouisIngenthron It's an answer, but not the only one. I was being hyperbolic in my intro, but there's a LOT the left can be doing besides merely voting or engaging in violence. It just doesn't do much of it.
@shoq The Twitter Left may not, but there are plenty of politically active democrats who knock on doors and write letters.
What actions, specifically, do you wish liberals took more often?
Good question! I've knocked on doors and written letters (and I expect many of the Twitter Left have, really), and I admit it's often felt sort of futile, although I have a sort of theoretical faith that it isn't.
I wish people would work harder on pushing the Overton Window leftward, rather than trying to "reach out" to the right. What that means concretely varies with person, I guess. Normalize the idea that capitalism isn't the Best Thing Ever, for instance, in personal discussion, in screenplays, candidates they support, political platforms... even on Twitter!
I'd rather alienate people to the right than people to the left; but ideally of course I'd like to pull the moderates leftward at the same time, rather than alienating then. Hence the moving of the Overton Window that way.
The moderates include some of the people who would benefit most from increased social justice; undoing some of the propaganda that makes them opposed to it should be a big part of the program. If only we knew how to do it more effectively!
