Sure but if I’m going to put the blame on someone it’s going to be the politicians who refuse to do anything but ratchet right and not the people who are mad about it.
Man, do you not remember what it was like 20 years ago? Even 10 years ago? “We’ve ratcheted right” is empty fucking rhetoric. The Dems have been moving leftwards ever since the nadir of labor support in the 90s. Is it enough? Fuck no. Are we rightward of that? Have we moved right since? Also fuck no.
The people who are ‘mad’ about that have just chosen to kill as many Palestinians as US support can, in addition to genocide against LGBT folk and immigrants, immense damage to the working class, and God knows what fucking else will emerge in this shitshow of a fascist regime.
I’m not going to sit here waiting for Medicaid to be repealed so I can enjoy exsanguinating by internal bleeding because I can’t afford my meds in our fuckhole of a country and say, “Oh, shucks, well, those folk, they were just SO mad that they let the Nazis win, I guess they’re still okay in my book :)” I’m pissed. And I’m pissed for everyone who’s going to get fucked worse than me, which is, unfortunately, a great many people.
Kamala had every opportunity to campaign on medicare and labor but instead she decided that a lethal military, trump-lite immigration policy and agreeing with biden on everything. Sure there were people pretending third parties mattered but apathetic voters are a response to her dogshit campaign at the end of the day. You need to get people excited to vote for you if you want to actually win an election in this country, trump did that for his nazis, kamala did not for the left.
Sure there were people pretending third parties mattered but apathetic voters are a response to her dogshit campaign at the end of the day.
Apathetic voters are a loud and clear declaration of “I don’t care if the literal fascist wins” in this election, man.
Harris having a dogshit campaign doesn’t change that. Harris’s dogshit campaign condemns Harris, and her allies; but the victory of Trump condemns everyone who stood by and refused to do the least thing, a cast vote, to stop him.
Apathy is not an excuse. Apathy is exactly why they deserve condemnation. Anyone who is apathetic about fascism is not someone who deserves a milder rebuke than would otherwise be given. Apathy about fascism is a serious moral failing.
Sure but getting mad at your average apathetic willfully ignorant American is just a waste of energy, and if anything is just going to make them ignore politics even more.
Sure but getting mad at your average apathetic willfully ignorant American is just a waste of energy
They deserve the blame, and they are what needs to be addressed as a fundamental issue. Anger is irrelevant, though I certainly have plenty of anger for them.
I’m not here praying day-and-night for any party to give good candidates against fascism every election from now on, forever. I’m not here saying we need to be reliant on a party aristocracy to bless us with good leaders. That’s not what democracies are founded on. I’m here interested in seeing an electorate that doesn’t allow fascism to become viable in the first place.
It’s on us. The people. We voted, and refrained from voting, for this. Fuck the Dems, fuck the party elite, fuck Harris and especially fuck Biden. But “bad candidate” or “bad campaign” or “bad strategy” misses the actual problem of “A SUPERMAJORITY OF VOTERS THINK FASCISM IS NO BIG DEAL”
and if anything is just going to make them ignore politics even more.
If we’re talking about the people who refused to vote even when a literal fascist was on the ticket, what exactly are we losing here from them “ignoring politics even more”? How much more can they ignore politics?
How can you run on a platform of democracy, when democracy has gotten the average American citizen jack shit?
“Vote for a Democrat. If Democrats win, nothing will fundamentally change. If they lose, then you will lose your right to vote for a Democrat again!”
That’s a shit platform that is doomed to fail. Democrats have been running on the platform of “we’re the last hope for democracy” for a generation as this point. And at some point people simply give up and decide, “well, democracy clearly ain’t all it’s cracked up to be, as neither side actually wants to help regular people.”
Sure but if I’m going to put the blame on someone it’s going to be the politicians who refuse to do anything but ratchet right and not the people who are mad about it.
Man, do you not remember what it was like 20 years ago? Even 10 years ago? “We’ve ratcheted right” is empty fucking rhetoric. The Dems have been moving leftwards ever since the nadir of labor support in the 90s. Is it enough? Fuck no. Are we rightward of that? Have we moved right since? Also fuck no.
The people who are ‘mad’ about that have just chosen to kill as many Palestinians as US support can, in addition to genocide against LGBT folk and immigrants, immense damage to the working class, and God knows what fucking else will emerge in this shitshow of a fascist regime.
I’m not going to sit here waiting for Medicaid to be repealed so I can enjoy exsanguinating by internal bleeding because I can’t afford my meds in our fuckhole of a country and say, “Oh, shucks, well, those folk, they were just SO mad that they let the Nazis win, I guess they’re still okay in my book :)” I’m pissed. And I’m pissed for everyone who’s going to get fucked worse than me, which is, unfortunately, a great many people.
Kamala had every opportunity to campaign on medicare and labor but instead she decided that a lethal military, trump-lite immigration policy and agreeing with biden on everything. Sure there were people pretending third parties mattered but apathetic voters are a response to her dogshit campaign at the end of the day. You need to get people excited to vote for you if you want to actually win an election in this country, trump did that for his nazis, kamala did not for the left.
Apathetic voters are a loud and clear declaration of “I don’t care if the literal fascist wins” in this election, man.
Harris having a dogshit campaign doesn’t change that. Harris’s dogshit campaign condemns Harris, and her allies; but the victory of Trump condemns everyone who stood by and refused to do the least thing, a cast vote, to stop him.
Apathy is not an excuse. Apathy is exactly why they deserve condemnation. Anyone who is apathetic about fascism is not someone who deserves a milder rebuke than would otherwise be given. Apathy about fascism is a serious moral failing.
Sure but getting mad at your average apathetic willfully ignorant American is just a waste of energy, and if anything is just going to make them ignore politics even more.
They deserve the blame, and they are what needs to be addressed as a fundamental issue. Anger is irrelevant, though I certainly have plenty of anger for them.
I’m not here praying day-and-night for any party to give good candidates against fascism every election from now on, forever. I’m not here saying we need to be reliant on a party aristocracy to bless us with good leaders. That’s not what democracies are founded on. I’m here interested in seeing an electorate that doesn’t allow fascism to become viable in the first place.
It’s on us. The people. We voted, and refrained from voting, for this. Fuck the Dems, fuck the party elite, fuck Harris and especially fuck Biden. But “bad candidate” or “bad campaign” or “bad strategy” misses the actual problem of “A SUPERMAJORITY OF VOTERS THINK FASCISM IS NO BIG DEAL”
If we’re talking about the people who refused to vote even when a literal fascist was on the ticket, what exactly are we losing here from them “ignoring politics even more”? How much more can they ignore politics?
How can you run on a platform of democracy, when democracy has gotten the average American citizen jack shit?
“Vote for a Democrat. If Democrats win, nothing will fundamentally change. If they lose, then you will lose your right to vote for a Democrat again!”
That’s a shit platform that is doomed to fail. Democrats have been running on the platform of “we’re the last hope for democracy” for a generation as this point. And at some point people simply give up and decide, “well, democracy clearly ain’t all it’s cracked up to be, as neither side actually wants to help regular people.”
Jesus fucking Christ.