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.

  • @njm1314
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    37 hours ago

    So go revolt. You said you’re 47. What do you have to lose? Start. Pick a Target.

    • Flying Squid
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      -16 hours ago

      What have I got to lose? My daughter, first of all. Also, when has a lone revolutionary picking a random target every accomplished anything they set out to do?

      • @njm1314
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        34 hours ago

        Well then maybe stop bitching at others for not going first. You don’t want to do it so maybe you should pipe down.

        • Flying Squid
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          -24 hours ago

          I never said I wanted to do it in the first place. That’s the people constantly talking about setting up guillotines and never doing so.

          • @njm1314
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            34 hours ago

            Oh you made that very clear, you don’t want to do anything, you’re just really into bitching at others for not doing it.

            • Flying Squid
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              -24 hours ago

              Bitching? No. I find the cosplay very amusing.