Controlled opposistion.
Controlled opposistion.
Controlled opposistion.
For a long time, I thought the Democrats were fighting valiantly but just overwhelmed by the oligarchy and the Republicans. Then I saw that the Democrats keep losing fights they should win and figured they must be just weak and ineffectual. Then I kept seeing them backing off without putting up a fight at all and decided they were gutless cowards. Finally I noticed that enough of them keep voting with the Republicans to always make sure the Republicans more or less win almost every fight, and that they keep starting from a Center position and bargaining to the Right, and eventually after enough of that it became impossible to ignore the only conclusion that actually fits the facts: The Democrats are not over matched, they aren’t weak, they aren’t cowards…they’re complicit.
Frankly, seeing them literally enable shit that he’s doing now convinced me of a thing I fought HARD against in the general: the DNC is fully dead at this point. There is no rescuing it as a political party. It is completely insensitive to the needs and wishes of the American people, and that is specifically why it lost. A new party is required. Before, I thought the more dangerous option was to fracture the vote. I’ve come to understand that this is just a sunk-cost fallacy. I didn’t think the DNC would be as absolutely feckless as it was - I thought there were still some actual, intelligent, well-meaning people still in the room, but there weren’t, and there aren’t. Even considering the crazy hurdles that are put in place to enforce two-party rule, I genuinely no longer see any real benefit to staying with the party.
I used to think we should vote for slowing down the badness (voting Democrat instead of letting Republicans win), but after seeing them do almost nothing in the face of obvious fascism and rule-breaking (the Democrats love being bound by rules), maybe it's better to burn everything down faster. Stalling might have just been boiling the frog that is the US citizenry.
I mean, I see it with a bit more nuance than that.
I voted D before across the board last election because I saw it as a brake on the course towards fascism. The fact that Democratic leadership across the board is too fucking limpdick to do anything other than set up deals that will OBVIOUSLY be dropped on the floor the second the fascists get what they want is just the final object lesson that they’re not fit for purpose. They’ve taken away the whole “we’re fighting against fascism” thing, and that was the only reason I so fervently pushed to line up support behind any Democrats I could. So whereas before, the disincentive for a 3p vote was “it will probably help the fascists win”… that logic no longer works, because the fascists have won.
So, fuck you, DNC. I will go 3p, or even just write shit in if you don’t give me a compelling candidate now. You negotiated your way into complete irrelevance, and sold us down the river while you were at it. Good fucking job.
I agree with everything you've written, but the meme is garbage. I don't want people in power who will "blow through all the barriers", regardless of what their intentions are. I want better barriers that allow for meaningful change while preventing idiots from being elected and selling our country out to foreign billionaires and corporations.
Unfortunately, the genie is out of the bottle now, and the only way to fight back is to blow through barriers, and hope that whoever ends up in charge creates better ones. Because if this is going to be the new norm, where we just disregard the rules forever, then we are done for.
I mean at this point the best the US can hope for is something similar to Germany post WW II: a new constitution that perserves what was good about the old one while installing new saveguards against fascism.
I can tell you right now, there won't be a legal route to a new constitution without a civil war. There is no way that enough people in power would support rewriting that document.
This is how I feel. I would not vote for the dems if this is how they did things.
Most people wouldn't, which is why this argument is a non-starter for me. When people say Dems should've played dirty to stop the Republicans, I just roll my eyes. It would never work, because the majority of people who vote Dem would never support that kind of politicking under normal circumstances. But now we're at the precipice, and we are slowly finding out that even the most milquetoast Dem voters are willing to support the dirtiest tricks just to get out from under the grip of this techno-fascist bullshit.
I just hope we can find our way back to some kind of sanity once the dust settles.
It’s the ratchet effect. Right pulls us right and left refuses to budge left. Net effect, slow but steady moment to the right.
Damn this is a good analogy. It is exactly what happened.
My only worry is that it is purposeful.
I feel like both parties financially and logistically enabling a genocide should radicalize you a little more but yeah. If this does it for you all the better.
blowing up a hundred years of institutional structure with no regard is different than maintaining one
Voting Democrat enables further Genocide, the Democrats are fully pro-genocide. Yes, Trump didn't force an end to the genocide on taking office, he just maintained the Democrats pro-genocide policy. And the Democrats position is that we should keep sacrificing Ukrainians since they might kill some Russians. Literally deciding to fight to the last Ukrainian. Not being in any way pro-Ukrainian, just wanting to "give the Russians another Afghanistan" and not caring about the Ukrainian costs.