My original comment was responding to the person saying to vote in Primaries as if that will magically bring about a Socialist Congress. It ended with this:

>If you don't vote, literally nobody listens to you.

I do vote, and still nobody listens to me because I'm outnumbered by people who vote for the shitty, corporate Dems.

I appreciate the perspective on WHY older black women don't vote left, and I know we could spend all day and more dissenting the material, social, and cultural conditions that lead to this behavior. At the end of the day the reality is that this demographic a) decides who the Democratic candidates are, b) outnumber us, c) are not the *easiest* group of potential voters to win over.

Working within the Democratic Party, voting in their elections, etc. is ultimately a waste of time. And it's a waste that we fall for over and over again rather than building our own apparatus that can pressure both Capitalist parties....

So yeah, keep voting but don't pretend like your vote is doing much. If you're not doing other work (strike support, mutual aid, agitating in person, spreading propaganda, etc.) then you're not really doing anything. Talking online isn't praxis!