I still won’t believe that leaving a black woman holding the bag the Dems took turns shitting in when it became obvious that they were utterly losing is some kind of coincidence.
Tl;dr: to all the genocidal apologists and enablers - you are the crazy fucking extremists.
That part is probably a coincidence. It was pretty clear last election democrats have entirely lost the thread to the point they’re basically just as dangerous as gwb was in the early 2000s.
A year of watching the entire party defend the actions, support a genocidal regime followed by the complete suppression of Palestinian members from the platform, suppression of student activists. Followed by completely ignoring the economic issues of the middle class was basically their version of taking the mask off and hollowed out what little remaining support they had from people like myself. Nothing made me happier than watching them lose an election the thought they could phone in because trump was running again. Not particularly happy with the result but happy they face planted.
I’m afraid it goes a lot deeper than that. I don’t think the left really grasps the true nature of the relationship between liberalism and fascism. Biden had to lose to allow the other lot in… if liberals are seen to wield the stick (as opposed to the carrot), liberalism becomes useless to the ruling elites. And that’s really the way our (so-called) “liberal democracies” have always worked - the liberals do the lying, the fascists do… the other stuff. The only difference now is that the Oct 7th attack has shone a spotlight on a lib regime and caught them with their hands stuck inside the genocide cookie jar.
This is something all antifascists will have to grapple with - it doesn’t matter how good you become at beating up fascists… if you are only beating up fascists you are only hurting the part of the weed that’s growing above ground. If we can’t find effective ways of problematising and confronting liberals and liberalism itself, we are simply playing wack-a-mole… until the liberals hand the mole the keys to all the tanks, of course.
I still won’t believe that leaving a black woman holding the bag the Dems took turns shitting in when it became obvious that they were utterly losing is some kind of coincidence.
Tl;dr: to all the genocidal apologists and enablers - you are the crazy fucking extremists.
That part is probably a coincidence. It was pretty clear last election democrats have entirely lost the thread to the point they’re basically just as dangerous as gwb was in the early 2000s.
A year of watching the entire party defend the actions, support a genocidal regime followed by the complete suppression of Palestinian members from the platform, suppression of student activists. Followed by completely ignoring the economic issues of the middle class was basically their version of taking the mask off and hollowed out what little remaining support they had from people like myself. Nothing made me happier than watching them lose an election the thought they could phone in because trump was running again. Not particularly happy with the result but happy they face planted.
No point in wasting time on them anymore.
I’m not disagreeing with you.
I’m afraid it goes a lot deeper than that. I don’t think the left really grasps the true nature of the relationship between liberalism and fascism. Biden had to lose to allow the other lot in… if liberals are seen to wield the stick (as opposed to the carrot), liberalism becomes useless to the ruling elites. And that’s really the way our (so-called) “liberal democracies” have always worked - the liberals do the lying, the fascists do… the other stuff. The only difference now is that the Oct 7th attack has shone a spotlight on a lib regime and caught them with their hands stuck inside the genocide cookie jar.
This is something all antifascists will have to grapple with - it doesn’t matter how good you become at beating up fascists… if you are only beating up fascists you are only hurting the part of the weed that’s growing above ground. If we can’t find effective ways of problematising and confronting liberals and liberalism itself, we are simply playing wack-a-mole… until the liberals hand the mole the keys to all the tanks, of course.