The difference nowadays is honestly the internet and age of disinformation and psyops. People’s brains are so physically damaged from being chronically online, plus the older generation increasingly losing their minds to lead poisoning and Facebook AI slop, and they are STRONGLY united. People don’t leave their houses anymore, third places are dead, we have to completely remodel our if we are to take this on. I am not disagreeing with anything you are saying or the need for revolution. The issue arises that we cannot make this change happen quickly enough. We cannot change the sociopolitical system of an entire country, again with half of it brainrotted by cult ideology, within 2 years before the next election. Even if we have the biggest turnout of 3rd party votes in history in 2028, the right wing and capitalist class is united under their lord and savior, even if not all of them agree with him. The left is fragmented and cannibalizing itself, as we are seeing in this thread right now. We seal our fate if we vote a bunch of different ways while the right does not. We have to break out the bandaids and stop the bleeding. We absolutely can and should do all of what you’re talking about - but we can’t afford to lose another election while we do.
Now, if (when?) no elections happen at all in 2028, then all bets are off and the game changes completely.
I think a key difference here is that you believe the left to be represented in any way by the democrats. No matter which major party wins the next election, the tasks at hand remain largely the same, and the severity of the crisis remains similarly the same. The Democrats are merely the more competent managers of empire, not a way to avoid fascism.
I don’t. The last thing I will say on the matter because this has become cumbersome to discuss is that if we had avoided Trump and gotten Harris, things would not be as they are now. People like me would not be in the danger that we are now. We warned about this, we begged the nation to prevent this. Both options are genocidal tyrants, but one of them would have had objectively less terror, destruction, and obstruction. But sadly, the people who have the privilege to say “they’re both bad so it doesn’t matter who wins until the revolution” will just not understand until they’re the direct target. People of color, queer people, disabled people, we are all expendable to those who can’t just pick the lesser of two evils in the meantime of working on rebuilding society from the ground up, starting with local communities, just because “both sides bad grrrr.”
The difference nowadays is honestly the internet and age of disinformation and psyops. People’s brains are so physically damaged from being chronically online, plus the older generation increasingly losing their minds to lead poisoning and Facebook AI slop, and they are STRONGLY united. People don’t leave their houses anymore, third places are dead, we have to completely remodel our if we are to take this on. I am not disagreeing with anything you are saying or the need for revolution. The issue arises that we cannot make this change happen quickly enough. We cannot change the sociopolitical system of an entire country, again with half of it brainrotted by cult ideology, within 2 years before the next election. Even if we have the biggest turnout of 3rd party votes in history in 2028, the right wing and capitalist class is united under their lord and savior, even if not all of them agree with him. The left is fragmented and cannibalizing itself, as we are seeing in this thread right now. We seal our fate if we vote a bunch of different ways while the right does not. We have to break out the bandaids and stop the bleeding. We absolutely can and should do all of what you’re talking about - but we can’t afford to lose another election while we do.
Now, if (when?) no elections happen at all in 2028, then all bets are off and the game changes completely.
I think a key difference here is that you believe the left to be represented in any way by the democrats. No matter which major party wins the next election, the tasks at hand remain largely the same, and the severity of the crisis remains similarly the same. The Democrats are merely the more competent managers of empire, not a way to avoid fascism.
I don’t. The last thing I will say on the matter because this has become cumbersome to discuss is that if we had avoided Trump and gotten Harris, things would not be as they are now. People like me would not be in the danger that we are now. We warned about this, we begged the nation to prevent this. Both options are genocidal tyrants, but one of them would have had objectively less terror, destruction, and obstruction. But sadly, the people who have the privilege to say “they’re both bad so it doesn’t matter who wins until the revolution” will just not understand until they’re the direct target. People of color, queer people, disabled people, we are all expendable to those who can’t just pick the lesser of two evils in the meantime of working on rebuilding society from the ground up, starting with local communities, just because “both sides bad grrrr.”