one third for Trump, one third against, and one third couldn’t be bothered to voteare systematically and militantly disenfranchised.
It should also be noted that Dems repeatedly rejected popular calls to neuter the fascist state - reforming immigration laws to guarantee a path to citizenship, defunding ICE and the DEA and other proto-fascist organs of the Federal government, reversing mandatory minimums, prosecuting bureaucrats for abuse of power, beefing up public defender budgets, nationalizing and dismantling prisons, etc.
All popular goals. All achievable through reforms out of any single branch of government. All smothered within the last three decades of periodic liberal control.
Biden/Harris siding with the genocidal Netanyahu government and going on an anti-immigration crusade during her VP tenure blurred the lines between Dem and GOP so heavily that people couldn’t distinguish a difference.
Just like with Gore in '00 and Clinton in '16 and their scramble to the far-right of the party to shore up support with mega-donors, the Dems seeded their own defeat and handed power willingly to fascist regime after fascist regime.
Rs have a whole toolbox of ways to keep ppl from voting. but i don’t want to pretend there isn’t ALSO an apathy problem in the US.
and yes, Ds have failed to act over the decades to stop this and update the country. i’m sure there are a mix of reasons for this, including capital capture, ignorance, hubris, etc. Ds own this too.
imo, the American experiment has failed (insofar as it existed at all.) the only way truly forward will be bloody, to try and build something new from the rubble.
i don’t want to pretend there isn’t ALSO an apathy problem in the US.
I think you’ll discover the apathy in two main places:
Areas where Dems have very little influence locally, and people feel perpetually defeated and abandoned.
Areas where Dems have enormous control locally, and people feel betrayed by a government that doesn’t live up to its promises
Like, if you go to Dem stronghold states in NY and MN and MA and CA, what you’ll get isn’t this well funded highly technocratic compassionate liberal meritocracy. It’s Eric Adams shilling Bitcoin and Dianne Feinstein drooling her way through SCOTUS appointments. You can’t go into the district of Lori Lightfoot or Henry Cuellar or Bob Menendez and complain that people aren’t sufficiently enthusiastic in their support for Team D. Not when you’ve got the national party propping these crooks and assholes up.
Similarly, when you’re living in a county that’s got a big “No N- Allowed” above the voting booth and the Obama/Biden DOJ just looks the other way… What do you feel like you’re voting for in this instance?
It should also be noted that Dems repeatedly rejected popular calls to neuter the fascist state - reforming immigration laws to guarantee a path to citizenship, defunding ICE and the DEA and other proto-fascist organs of the Federal government, reversing mandatory minimums, prosecuting bureaucrats for abuse of power, beefing up public defender budgets, nationalizing and dismantling prisons, etc.
All popular goals. All achievable through reforms out of any single branch of government. All smothered within the last three decades of periodic liberal control.
Biden/Harris siding with the genocidal Netanyahu government and going on an anti-immigration crusade during her VP tenure blurred the lines between Dem and GOP so heavily that people couldn’t distinguish a difference.
Just like with Gore in '00 and Clinton in '16 and their scramble to the far-right of the party to shore up support with mega-donors, the Dems seeded their own defeat and handed power willingly to fascist regime after fascist regime.
by and large i agree with you.
Rs have a whole toolbox of ways to keep ppl from voting. but i don’t want to pretend there isn’t ALSO an apathy problem in the US.
and yes, Ds have failed to act over the decades to stop this and update the country. i’m sure there are a mix of reasons for this, including capital capture, ignorance, hubris, etc. Ds own this too.
imo, the American experiment has failed (insofar as it existed at all.) the only way truly forward will be bloody, to try and build something new from the rubble.
I think you’ll discover the apathy in two main places:
Like, if you go to Dem stronghold states in NY and MN and MA and CA, what you’ll get isn’t this well funded highly technocratic compassionate liberal meritocracy. It’s Eric Adams shilling Bitcoin and Dianne Feinstein drooling her way through SCOTUS appointments. You can’t go into the district of Lori Lightfoot or Henry Cuellar or Bob Menendez and complain that people aren’t sufficiently enthusiastic in their support for Team D. Not when you’ve got the national party propping these crooks and assholes up.
Similarly, when you’re living in a county that’s got a big “No N- Allowed” above the voting booth and the Obama/Biden DOJ just looks the other way… What do you feel like you’re voting for in this instance?