@uoou IT IS BOTH, DAMMIT.
IT'S BOTH.
@msbellows After 40+ years of the increasingly rapid transfer of wealth and assets from the state and ordinary people to billionaires, stagnant productivity and real-terms falling pay, crumbling infrastructure and public services, barbaric wars of aggression and support for genocidal regimes, and the absolute failure to even begin to address an existential threat to our species…
…the people are equally culpable for not voting for that for the tenth time?
No. The conditions for Trump were set by 40 years of neoliberal bullshit, not the people who want to vote for something other than neoliberal bullshit.
@uoou In the U.S., we're allowed roughly 3.5 years out of every four to fight like hell for progressive change, including working hard to promote progressive candidates. But once we know who the Democratic nominee will be in a presidential election year, that pauses, and our job is to support and elect that Democrat. Period. Because the alternative is fascism.
No one's angry at progressives for pushing hard-left 7/8 of the time. It's when they KEEP pushing AGAINST THE ONLY PARTY + NOMINEE WHO CAN PREVENT FASCISM, DURING AN ELECTION CAMPAIGN, that we get just a wee bit testy.
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