The ground begins to shift in our favor: The first signs of an electoral backlash against Trump
The ground begins to shift in our favor: The first signs of an electoral backlash against Trump
Idk about you, but idgaf about the duoply anymore. I'm ready for the workers' rights party. Let's reset the whole fucking thing.
I was just typing up a post earlier this morning about my alarm about well-intentioned "let's abandon everything in power that isn't the Republicans, what's the worst that could happen" YouTube videos.
You can work for a worker's rights party, without selling out AOC and Bernie Sanders to go to the Gitmo camp.
Are they saying that? I mean if we’re building a new movement, stopping innocent people from getting gulag’d should be a top priority.
But it seems increasingly clear that the Democratic Party is in the process of failure and maybe even collapse and that does raise a question of where do we go from here?
I personally would like to see a grassroots movement that is more focused on direct resistance than electoralism but that’s just me.
We have made significant progress in four weeks—to the point that we can begin to see the outlines of a Democratic victory in the House in 2026.
Assuming that there will be free and fair midterm elections, or midterm elections at all.
Any electoral backlash might be to late. Who knows if there will be another election?
Elections are a formal and organized implementation of the fact that if there are 10,000 people on one side, and 500 on the other, than the 10,000 can win in a fight.
The founding fathers didn't mean to lay down pure prescriptions for how everything was supposed to function, like computer code that all the humans were supposed to obey. They were just trying to strike a balance between that reality of life, versus having some kind of a system so everything wasn't a big fistfight every four years and everyone could have a peaceful life. But elections are just a symbol for who can win if everyone gets motivated for it.
And they made the mistake of copying bad ideas from the UK voting system, which led to the problems that the US has nowadays.
That should lead to a groundswell of donations to the Democratic Party, which the leadership can use to primary AOC and The Squad with some well-picked AIPAC-endorsed corporate stuffed shirts. Then they can have a straight run for those who miss the old Republican party of the Reagan/Bush years
I love how reliably ever-present, under any type of news about something good or bad going on in the political world, is the little trickle of comments saying "YEAH FUCK THE DEMOCRATS WE ALL HATE DEMOCRATS."
Didn't people learn their lesson about this after the last election? You can hate the Democrats' shitting fundraising consultants and geriatric leadership without needing to inject a conversation about it into some kind of random conversation about grassroots progress or literally any other thing.
The primary concern of the people in charge of the Democrats seems to be to keep the left contained where it can’t actually affect policy and threaten the interests of stakeholders. As such, any fightback will stop short of empowering grass-roots organisers, and prioritise ensuring that grass-roots enthusiasm can be safely diverted to the benefit of stakeholders.
Very true... How could we intercept those donations and direct them towards something progressive?
The irony of using a fasc-friend platform to talk about resisting fascists when Ghost is right over there.
📎 Hi! It looks like you're making a bad-faith effort to throw shade at a prominent leftist platform, aiming to divide the left into innumerable internal squabbles about purity tests and innuendos, right when their very existence is being threatened and it's pretty critical for them to hang the fuck together. Would you like to bring up something about Elizabeth Warren and Blackrock? Or say that Bernie Sanders is a big piece of shit for some reason, because he's not left enough? Those are often popular collateral talking points in my experience.
Substack is a leftist platform? Since when?
- https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/11/substack-extremism-nazi-white-supremacy-newsletters/676156/
- https://techcrunch.com/2024/01/09/substack-nazi-content-policies-controversy/
- https://www.theverge.com/24040685/substack-newsletters-nazi-content-moderation-policy
- https://danieldrezner.substack.com/p/substackers-against-nazis
- https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/22/business/substack-nazis-content-moderation.html
There's more. Many more. And a list of literal (as in swastika-flaunting) Nazis being hosted on Substack would be far longer. (Oh, and you might want to have a look at the dates on those articles. This is not new information.)
What do you call a bar, again, that lets Nazis openly associate? And what do you call the other patrons also in it?
Maybe the non-Nazis should read this: https://ghost.org/docs/migration/substack/
move on with your life, there's way bigger battles to fight than "at some point in the past, a Nazi once stood on this patch of Earth... therefore anyone who stands on it becomes a Nazi". this is not the hill to die on you think it is.
which website a person casually clicks a link to doesn't irrevocably and eternally condemn (or purify) their personal beliefs and immortal soul. it's. just. a. website. and they took the Nazi shit down already. JFC.