What an immense tension there must be between “Trump is a fascist who would turn the US into a Nazi regime” and “all that I can or must do to stop Trump is cast a single ballot one time.”
I don’t envy anyone caught in that contradiction.
Yes. Depending on a person’s other comments, a statement like this is either advocacy to do more or an attempt at demotivation to do nothing. Unfortunately many groups attempting the former are infected with bad faith actors trying to cause the latter.
Elsewhere today I saw a “both sides” ratchet meme. “Dems are blocking progress to the left,” is the premise, and then the conclusions are either; “therefore primary them with progressives so we are able to move left,” or “throw your hands in the air and let the ratchet spin freely to the right.”
“What do you mean, I have to WORK to make progress in the world. Like, every single election? And then also OUTSIDE the election? Or else things will keep getting worse because some bad people have a lot of power? Fuck that. I think I’ll just let things get as bad as they get. What’s the worst that could happen? It’s not like anything bad could happen in the world, if I just refuse to participate.”
Yes. Depending on a person’s other comments, a statement like this is either advocacy to do more or an attempt at demotivation to do nothing. Unfortunately many groups attempting the former are infected with bad faith actors trying to cause the latter.
Elsewhere today I saw a “both sides” ratchet meme. “Dems are blocking progress to the left,” is the premise, and then the conclusions are either; “therefore primary them with progressives so we are able to move left,” or “throw your hands in the air and let the ratchet spin freely to the right.”
“What do you mean, I have to WORK to make progress in the world. Like, every single election? And then also OUTSIDE the election? Or else things will keep getting worse because some bad people have a lot of power? Fuck that. I think I’ll just let things get as bad as they get. What’s the worst that could happen? It’s not like anything bad could happen in the world, if I just refuse to participate.”