Democrats bet on appeals to neoconservatives — including war criminals like Dick Cheney — and touted harsh border policies, bolstering rather than challenging Republican anti-immigrant frameworks.
Kamala Harris may have relied on women to vote for abortion rights, but she promised little more than a potential return to the flawed and insufficient norm of Roe v. Wade, at best. Like President Joe Biden, she supported a genocide and failed to distinguish herself from extremist Zionists like Trump.
For Democrats, appealing to the right has been a disaster of realpolitik, especially in an electoral system that structurally favors Republicans anyway. But what’s worse, Democratic strategies have failed and harmed the most vulnerable communities both in the U.S. and those who suffer under the yoke of U.S.-backed wars.
There is an urgent need for social justice movement organizing, growing unions and union power, antagonism rather than acquiescence to existing power structures, and expansive networks of care and support. The most powerful social movements of the last decades did not primarily build on support from Democratic leadership under Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, or Joe Biden. Nor did they collapse during Trump’s first tenure.
Sneering? I genuinely wished you well in your new country and simply asked you to leave us alone. If you’re not going to fight, you have little right to tell others how to do it. You’re simply yelling from the sidelines at people you insist on not working with. The very people you want to bash are the ones who go out of their way to protect people the cops wont.
In my area when the local fash org dropped stacks of hateful rhetoric flyers specificly on just the doorstep of a trans person they doxed, the police were not the ones who sent somone to walk the perimiter day and night for a week. Its was the group of people you insist aren’t fighting the way you’d fight.
It takes a special kind of entitlement to think a group of people you do not wish to help should act the way you want them too. You wouldn’t expect the government to listen to people who don’t show up to vote, why would a group you dont show up to listen to you?