The opponent is not picked at the ballot box, but via the class structure. If you are a worker, your opponent is inherently the owning capitalist class who exploits your labor. Turns out, they are also the ones who unilaterally choose most “elected” officials and policy, which means politicians, at most, are middle managers for your opponent, the capitalist class. Choosing them is irrelevant because they have a continuity of agenda irregardless of who they are, they only get into the position because they are hired by the ruling class to do a particular job. Any of the outlier candidates who might sneak into a post here and there where they aren’t directly controlled by capitalists, spend careers trying to fight small symptoms of the system and never make any ground.
This is also why the liberal focus on specific shitheels in politics (Trump, Vance, etc) is ultimately pointless: if your primary goal is to remove the individuals from power, they will simply be replaced by other ghouls with identical politics while your movement disintegrates because you accomplished your goal, achieving nothing.
You have to change the underlying material structure of your society in order to facilitate meaningful change.
The opponent is not picked at the ballot box, but via the class structure. If you are a worker, your opponent is inherently the owning capitalist class who exploits your labor. Turns out, they are also the ones who unilaterally choose most “elected” officials and policy, which means politicians, at most, are middle managers for your opponent, the capitalist class. Choosing them is irrelevant because they have a continuity of agenda irregardless of who they are, they only get into the position because they are hired by the ruling class to do a particular job. Any of the outlier candidates who might sneak into a post here and there where they aren’t directly controlled by capitalists, spend careers trying to fight small symptoms of the system and never make any ground.
This is also why the liberal focus on specific shitheels in politics (Trump, Vance, etc) is ultimately pointless: if your primary goal is to remove the individuals from power, they will simply be replaced by other ghouls with identical politics while your movement disintegrates because you accomplished your goal, achieving nothing.
You have to change the underlying material structure of your society in order to facilitate meaningful change.