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Who do you think helped prop up and build the foundations for fascism? That's what your tactics resulted in.
There are many ways to interpret this response. Some are reasonable (HRC did pied piper because she thought it'd help her win) and some are unhinged and stupid (Liberals are fascists).
My tactics were to vote in primaries (when they were available...) for progressive dems. I voted for Bernie Sander's twice. But then I voted HRC and Biden, and Harris when they were the liberal slop candidates that we got. Because the alternative was helping a fascist win.
My tactics were to canvass, advocate, donate time and money to progressive causes. And when the progressives did not fucking win the primaries, I gritted my teeth and did the same for the centrist dems.
And you know what, sure. Those tactics failed, because US citizens on average are completely selfish and stupid pieces of shit. I don't owe your glorious revolution my life. I did not choose to be here in this hellscape, that your own advocacy helped create.
So you did what they wanted you to do, vote for the sheepdog in the primary to give you the illusion of choice and progress, they push the sheepdog aside and you are forced to vote for the candidate they wanted you to vote for from the beginning.
The only failed tactic is liberals using the same failed ones over and over, thinking this time has got to be different.
Yeah man its all just an illusion right. All the leaders are coordinating in perfect harmony to manipulate me.
Biden, in his demented state, purposefully selected Harris to serve the interests of capital... and not his own ego because she was his VP. He wasn't insulted at all when they finally started to insist that he move aside and pick the least charismatic fucking option imaginable as a fuck you to the rest of his own party.
You know... sometimes people in power are just fucking stupid flawed narcissists. Just like the average dipshit voter is.
There hasnt been a single democrat primary candidate thats won California and lost the party nomination until Bernie in 2020, and the party knows this. Thats why all other candidates dropped out around Super Tuesday and endorsed Biden to manipulate public perception on the best viable candidate.
Your choice was selected for you.
You should evaluate your tactics and evaluate the limits of electoralism then. And you should adjust accordingly.
I am not going to fight and die in your stupid dumb fuck revolution (that will happen any day now I'm sure).
My tactics have changed: Understand that I can't fix things. That I am wasting my short life trying to. Its time to seek the most pleasant oblivion.
My revolution? No one is advocating for a glorious revolution. You're learning about the limits of electoral politics in a capitalist system. Your solution to this is to give up? That's your right if that's what you want.
But I don't think you'll actually have a choice about dying in this way.
And I think if you're going to just give up then telling others how to vote is pretty rude.
Give up on politics in any productive sense yes because its wasted my time and energy. It still is, I'm mostly just indulging in a habit at this point.
I'd be happier just going back and hanging out with normies and never discussing politics again. I'd be happier. I'd probably be wealthier and healthier had I been doing that for the past decade and a half of my life.
People like to joke that "liberals just want to go to brunch" and you know, I'm not a liberal (I don't agree with private ownership of the means of production) so I never really did that. I obsessed over shitty liberal rule and criticized them. But next time the libs take control (and the dems will eventually, the electorate loves to panic vote), I'm going to actually do that. I'm going to do the thing you accelerationists accused me of doing. Make sure I save up during the 4 or so years of mild stability, and go to some other country that isn't fucking stupid.
Maybe I wont live lavishly, moving is expensive, but I'm not sticking around to help people who gleefully dragged me into bullshit. And I know I'm not the only person thinking this.
Just a total waste.
I understand the despair. And the desire to flee. And the desire for normalcy. I, too, could choose brunch, even now under the trump administration. I can also afford to flee.
But I don't and you shouldn't. We must build a better world.
As long as I have strength, I will work to build that vision here, in my home. With the friends and neighbors I've cultivated.
The revolution is going fine. 2 years ago around here, and on all social media, Democrats and Biden could do no wrong. Biden could provide the weapons to kill 10k children and Dems would still back him. Fast forward their polling numbers are in the tank, public acknowledgment that the party and it's candidates are shit and they are tired of the same old failed policies and tactics. 'Lesser evil' is unacceptable because it's not lesser.
So wait, are you saying a violent rebellion is going to happen? You actually believe that we're on track for that?
And you think the mass death from that is going to be a good thing.
Where did I imply violent rebellion? Revolution isnt always violent, there will be violence because that the only language the state understands, and we are subjected to state violence every day of our life. Poverty is violence, homelessness is violence, no access to healthcare or education is violence. Violence isnt just physical, its also economical, physiological, verbal, and sexual.
We have not won a single right in this country without some sort of violence inflicted back at the state.
I'm going to give you an actual answer.
The federal crackdowns will breed resistance.
Resistance will cause the fascists to use more brutality. It is all they know how to do.
What do you think is going to happen? There is no vanguard or army to fight against the state abusing it's people.
Well, ok you are a different person that I was asking. I was asking because I assumed they were accelerationist or something.
Yeah, well, I have a lot of people that I work with so my experience is relevant to this question. We are not preparing for a revolution, we're worried about the breakdown of civil society in America.