Donald Trump could use emergency powers to extend his term in the White House, a senior Democrat has said, as fears grow that the president may attempt to hold onto office should he lose November’s
The new left coalition is going to build around Black Lives Matter.
Hell, it already is.
You got the doomer vibe.
The message is conveyed to The Dems by the protestors.
Those people across the country marching and organizing and standing against the police? They are demanding change, and they know voting Biden won’t give it.
The Democrats know, they just like to pretend. Because they don’t care about losing.
The more police violence there is, the more liberals go left.
The more stories about how people refuse to wear a mask? People go left.
The big problem the left has is a quick on-ramp of “wearing a mask to not spread a disease” to “capitalism refuses to let us prevent the virus spread, therefore it must end."
Framing the left from the basis of what's wrong with the world matters to help get people. Then getting them to a specific ideology is hard as there is a lot of reading and thinking in frameworks that Americans aren't primed for the way they are primed for fascism by capitalism (capitalism is about winners and losers, bosses and workers.. Don't you want to be the boss? Everyone like YOU gets to be in charge under fascism, we're the winning team.)
But right now, the wheels of capitalism and America are not running smoothly, people are more open to the idea of big changes.
The message is conveyed to The Dems by the protestors.
If Biden wins, the party line will be a mix of "they came out and voted for Biden like we told them to" and "we didn't need the anti-Biden leftists to win anyway, so fuck 'em." If Biden loses, the party line will be a mix of "the protesters didn't come out to vote/them not voting makes me question their intentions/#BlackLiveMatter and all but I don't really support the protesters anymore" and "Bernie Bros cost us two elections in a row!"
For not voting to have any prayer at producing a positive effect for the left the message needs to be (loudly and unambiguously): "Yes, we are willing to shoot the Democratic candidate in the head and hand the election to Trump if you nominate another neoliberal ghoul. Here is a compelling case why." You can make that case, but we're not, at least not in any organized or mainstream fashion. There's also a good argument that the time to make that case was during the primary, not after it. And of course, if the left makes that argument and Biden still wins, it backfires spectacularly.
The new left coalition is going to build around Black Lives Matter.
Hell, it already is.
You got the doomer vibe.
The message is conveyed to The Dems by the protestors.
Those people across the country marching and organizing and standing against the police? They are demanding change, and they know voting Biden won’t give it.
The Democrats know, they just like to pretend. Because they don’t care about losing.
The more police violence there is, the more liberals go left. The more stories about how people refuse to wear a mask? People go left.
The big problem the left has is a quick on-ramp of “wearing a mask to not spread a disease” to “capitalism refuses to let us prevent the virus spread, therefore it must end."
Framing the left from the basis of what's wrong with the world matters to help get people. Then getting them to a specific ideology is hard as there is a lot of reading and thinking in frameworks that Americans aren't primed for the way they are primed for fascism by capitalism (capitalism is about winners and losers, bosses and workers.. Don't you want to be the boss? Everyone like YOU gets to be in charge under fascism, we're the winning team.)
But right now, the wheels of capitalism and America are not running smoothly, people are more open to the idea of big changes.
If Biden wins, the party line will be a mix of "they came out and voted for Biden like we told them to" and "we didn't need the anti-Biden leftists to win anyway, so fuck 'em." If Biden loses, the party line will be a mix of "the protesters didn't come out to vote/them not voting makes me question their intentions/#BlackLiveMatter and all but I don't really support the protesters anymore" and "Bernie Bros cost us two elections in a row!"
For not voting to have any prayer at producing a positive effect for the left the message needs to be (loudly and unambiguously): "Yes, we are willing to shoot the Democratic candidate in the head and hand the election to Trump if you nominate another neoliberal ghoul. Here is a compelling case why." You can make that case, but we're not, at least not in any organized or mainstream fashion. There's also a good argument that the time to make that case was during the primary, not after it. And of course, if the left makes that argument and Biden still wins, it backfires spectacularly.