at the federal level, The Democrats are not an opposition party. They are a conventionalist party.
For about 40 years now, they have purely been put in place to manage the administrative state, sell neo liberal post Cold War free trade, and keep the incremental siphon of public resources to the private going. And to satiate the public, they would write legislation to end the more disrespectful and degrading treatments of minority people, but never actually addressed the socioeconomic factors that kept many of the same people at the bottom of the income ladder.
And they still were the better option than voting for Donald Trump or allowing the election to go in Trump’s favor by not supporting the Democrats. No one was voting for the Democrats out of hope that they would advance the United States , it was an act of cynical pragmatism.
We all knew supporting them wasnt the way forward, but what it would do is prevent us from walking backwards into a beehive….that’s on fire…and covered in HIV blood.
Sucks to hear but unless something drastic changes, we are inching ever closer to the end of American democracy and people are going to suffer.
And more than likely die because of it.
I remember making a post here saying that the critical mistake that pro-Palestinian non-voters and third-party supporters were making is assuming that things can’t get any worse for black folks in the west and Palestinians and some posters sarcastically replied that “GaZA iS iN RubBle , HOw CaN It GeT WoRse?” or “ blAck FolKs ArE AlReadY aT tHe BoTtOM!” as if it hasn’t objectively gotten worse for the Palestinians or for black folks since Trump took office
I will close by giving the protesters and unserious clowns like the green party some advice:
The sooner that they realize that the federal Democrats cannot be shamed into compliance and additionally, the sooner they realize that they are not going to dirty Mack voters away from the Democrats by talking bad about them, the quicker they’ll come to the realization that they need real tangible wins to actually change the political landscape in this country.
No one is going to just support good intentions, third parties need real wins to build momentum. And expressing outrage at the genocide of the Palestinians is not enough! They need to sell a reason for Americans to care! People dying is not enough for Americans to care!
Showing a single Midwestern mom of three a picture of a dead Palestinian child is going to elicit sadness, but what the fukk is she gonna do about it if she has to work two jobs to feed her own goddamn children? There has to be something in it for Americans in order to rally tangible support against the genocide.