I feel like something needs to be cleaned up in regards to electoralism. The problem with the DSA or other group's efforts isn't that they interact with the rigged political system, it's that the underlying analysis behind a lot of those efforts doesn't go beyond incrementalism. The republic isn't viewed as a protective shell that needs to be cracked so you get things like Biden telling the activist to fuck off and then some activist themselves trying to kill the story to preserve the illusion of their own influence.
That specifically is where things kept falling apart in regards to the squad and the Bernie campaigns. Bernie's failure as a leftist wasn't that he didn't win rigged elections and pass his reforms, it's that he wouldn't get in front his millions of supporters to calmly explain to them that Biden has no intention of letting the kids out of the cages, relieving student debt, or passing single payer. Our version of the republic is a mirrored shell and the progressives polished it so the versions of themselves people saw in it looked a little less distorted and grotesque.
That's core thing of it. The analysis of these electoral systems as fraudulent is exactly why they must be engaged with and attacked. It's where someone like Evo Morales can eventually score real victories and we don't.
Wonderfully said. I don't care that Bernie lost, I care that he knows Biden is a war criminal and didn't just flat out say it for everyone to hear. Instead he couched it with "Joe is my friend" and excuses and outs for the rapist war criminal. You cannot build your movement upon the elites keeping everyone else oppressed, and then refuse to hold those elites accountable when push comes to shove. Biden instantly spat in his face, and the solution is not to praise him or toe his genocidal line towards Cuba, it is to stop playing games and be honest with your supporters. Because people are not dumb, they know not to trust the dems and that's why they liked Bernie that's why they thought AOC was on their side. But when they went up there and told us rabble to bow and that concentration camps are not concentrations camps anymore cause they are blue and not red; any faith is destroyed.
Hostility is our weapon, and no fucking change through elections will ever be worth losing that weapon
I feel like something needs to be cleaned up in regards to electoralism. The problem with the DSA or other group's efforts isn't that they interact with the rigged political system, it's that the underlying analysis behind a lot of those efforts doesn't go beyond incrementalism. The republic isn't viewed as a protective shell that needs to be cracked so you get things like Biden telling the activist to fuck off and then some activist themselves trying to kill the story to preserve the illusion of their own influence.
That specifically is where things kept falling apart in regards to the squad and the Bernie campaigns. Bernie's failure as a leftist wasn't that he didn't win rigged elections and pass his reforms, it's that he wouldn't get in front his millions of supporters to calmly explain to them that Biden has no intention of letting the kids out of the cages, relieving student debt, or passing single payer. Our version of the republic is a mirrored shell and the progressives polished it so the versions of themselves people saw in it looked a little less distorted and grotesque.
That's core thing of it. The analysis of these electoral systems as fraudulent is exactly why they must be engaged with and attacked. It's where someone like Evo Morales can eventually score real victories and we don't.
Wonderfully said. I don't care that Bernie lost, I care that he knows Biden is a war criminal and didn't just flat out say it for everyone to hear. Instead he couched it with "Joe is my friend" and excuses and outs for the rapist war criminal. You cannot build your movement upon the elites keeping everyone else oppressed, and then refuse to hold those elites accountable when push comes to shove. Biden instantly spat in his face, and the solution is not to praise him or toe his genocidal line towards Cuba, it is to stop playing games and be honest with your supporters. Because people are not dumb, they know not to trust the dems and that's why they liked Bernie that's why they thought AOC was on their side. But when they went up there and told us rabble to bow and that concentration camps are not concentrations camps anymore cause they are blue and not red; any faith is destroyed.
Hostility is our weapon, and no fucking change through elections will ever be worth losing that weapon
Yes! You said this so much better than I did.