All y’all on here throwing a tantrum because you had apparently not done your own research about what was possible in this midterm can shut the hell up. Sleep on it and grow. You’re an adult. This was never going to be some fantasy where dems take the house and the senate. NO ONE PROMISED YOU THAT. A fuckton of harm has been done while people sat by ignoring the issue and one night isn’t going to be able to fix it. We have to chip away at the decay and we’ve done it in a huge way today.
Yet again, you deciding to give up on the system does nothing but ensure that it goes back to being worse after this. If you want things to change, keep voting, volunteer, help counter rigged districts, make phone calls etc. it was never going to be as easy as one time voting. We have to fight to matter in a world where power is only distributed willingly to the 1%. Don’t give up, get mad and regroup for the next round!!!
One of the best comments I saw on my dash in the last couple of days: this is not a sprint, it’s a relay marathon.
This was the first step. A step in the right direction, but only a step. Time to take the next one.
With the Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez victory in New York and the pretty much mainstreaming of the DSA that has happened in the past couple of weeks, I have noticed something from the pundit class that needs to be addressed.
If you notice, almost all the official reactions from people in power has been some version of “don’t demand too much, or you will lose moderate voters, and Trump and the Republicans will win again.” This is ostensibly played as a negotiation in political strategy – but it is actually a threat. These people are basically saying “don’t demand full liberation, or we will give you more concentration camps.”
Don’t listen to this bullshit. Besides the obvious threatening overtones, it is actually atrocious political strategy. Politics is a game of power and narrative. The right-wing figured out during the Reagan years that to compromise is actually to lose, and so they never ever moderate their most extreme positions. This has forced the left to “compromise” with absolutely egregious policy decisions in order to appease the right-wing, which is never satisfied. This is a large reason why the hard right has been able to rule from the minority all of this time.
Don’t be afraid to demand things that people consider “impossible.” Control the narrative. Force everybody to compromise from YOUR position to placate YOU – never compromise from theirs.
We demand an abolition of prisons, ICE, borders, the whole thing. We demand full liberation and the end of capitalism. Our demands, most modest are, we only want the world.
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