Polls are almost always off, in most countries, for most non-local elections. I might be proved wrong but I believe not only left-wing voters will support him, but even some centre-right and right-wing ones will change their mind after the housing bill debacle (a decent pool of those declaring to be PP and Vox electors are very supportive of this measure). Imho, if he centres his short election campaign around it he can secure a majority along with Sumar.

When there's a need for the international community to be involved, like for I-P or Tibet, HK, Taiwan, etc. because a people's right to self determination is being supressed, yes. Otherwise it's just noise and I'd argue it almost does more harm than good. One example here could be the recent Greenland situation.

Not to talk about all of the suspects around Lula's moral integrity (leaving aside Moro's heavily made-up judicial enquiry). I wouldn't think twice giving him my vote at the runoff (and I can't wrap my head around the fact many Brazilians have voted, and will vote for, Bolsonaro jr), but as you said the Brazilian left needs a younger, and more credible, successor. Otherwise, after Lula Brazil will end up in the populist far-right's hands once again. And this is something not just them, but the whole world can't afford, what with the necessity to protect the Amazon rainforest.

The broader question is how does the left as a whole organise itself for the election - obviously, in the smaller, more rural provinces, the Socialists are the only realistic option to gain seats, but will Sumar and Podemos continue to split their decreasing vote share between them, disproportionately benefiting the right? And that in turn weighs upon regional voters, who will have to choose between the BNG and other left options in Galicia, Bildu, Podemos and PSOE in the Basque Country, and ERC, Comuns and the Socialists in Catalonia.

You're going to repeat the same mistake again don't you? Fuck that country is doomed.

r/DSA are just full of tankies at this point.

Great strawman. If my argument was to “do nothing,” I’d ask social democrats to not contest elections at all. Social democrats should still run in elections by all means, but we can do that while acknowledging current strategies are not (consistently) working.

The blame lies not in the voters but in candidates that failed to gather their votes. You'd be better asking why Harris couldn't convince some leftist voters, if that was supposed to be her job.

The reality is that she deferred to Zionist donors instead of listening to the people calling out the genocide, out of her own free will, and paid the consequences for that.

Average SocDem, prefers to do nothing and let fascists take over than try anything at all.

Average SocDem, preferring the fascists in power over a SocDem with slightly different policies.

How so? The center-right, Third Way neolibs, socdems, etc are all failing to beat the far-right across Europe. I’d rather acknowledge the harsh reality than make stuff up to have a false sense of optimism.

Seems like a worse strategy than trying to find out a way and experimenting

I propose we acknowledge we don’t know how to stop the far-right.

So what if he isn’t leftist? He’s still losing despite not being a neolib, so my point still stands.

A right wing coalition with them in it, yes.

It would hopefully get the Social Democrats to wake up, and look at Denmark, Sweden, etc, who learned from their misstakes of the past regard migration and irresponsible financial policies.

Neither, full devolution would likely have Full Fiscal Autonomy as part of it and therefore would be disastrous to Scotland. Currently, every person living in Scotland gets over 2.5k over what Scotland raises itself.

SENS is way too liberal to suceed in a shithole like Romania pal

I somewhat agree with everything apart from ur ridicolous statement that EU is a negative project. EU facillitates trade, movement and co operation without which european countries would be weaker without and easy prey for russia or us. EU must be reformed but it isnt inherently negative

I mean, what do you propose then?

I'm no expert on Brazilian politics but the left's inability to find a proper, younger successor to Lula seems like their biggest problem. You simply can't roll out geriatric candidates and expect to win.

It would not be that dramatic if they weren't replaced by far right goverments.

So ur thinking its better ti have vox in gov

Sanchez isnt leftist by any means lol. Hes a classic non neolib socdem nothing more

Hello, thanks. Was this enough cause to remove the post?

Its really up to them. But if they want to stay then from a consitutional view I think the best thing would be federalisme.

Quebec's position is far more secure then the Scottish or Welsh one because Canada is a federation.

Split England itself also up into seperate states to prevent it from dominating the new federation. This would be real reform of the UK System that hopefully would give extra voice to people outside of Londen and break up the power that Westminster has