Hey. Hello.
I am monumentally tired of fighting. But Iâm going to continue to do so for as long as I can.
Right now I am seeing long-time followers attack Kamala Harris and Joe Biden for picking her as a running mate. I know a lot of people look at this duo and see âmore of the same.â Iâve seen so many intelligent people saying they are not going to vote.
It is absolutely critical that you vote the Biden/Harris ticket. I want you to remember that while you are pointing out the flaws, and here is why.
The current president is literally a fascist. Heâs slow-burning, meaning heâs slowly moving the goalpost farther right. The only reason heâs slow-moving is because the Republican party still has the barest semblance of a conscience. Think of what would have happened if #45 said âwe should delay the election!â and McConnell said âyeah okay that sounds cool.â
Do you know how terrifying that is? Because if he got congress to delay the election somehow, there would be no reason to ever have a federal election again. He could just keep delaying it forever.
âBut CK,â you say. âThe constitution says we canât delay a presidential election!â
Checks and balances say a lot of things. Checks and balances say that bills are supposed to be voted on and go to the president for signing or veto. Currently McConnell has found a loophole and just has 400 bills sitting on his desk, ignored.
I want you to keep this in mind: Under fascism, the constitution does not matter. They will find a way around it. Theyâre trying to find ways around amendments, too, poking and prodding at free speech until they can find a way to shut it down.
And if #45 decides he doesnât want to play anymore, heâs got a whole fucking army, and heâs just proven that the secret police he has in his employ will do whatever the fuck he says. I need you to recognized that this throwing people in Portland into vans thing wasnât the ultimate violation of freedom. It was only one step in a massive authoritarian takeover. You cannot trust the secret police to do the right thing and say no. #45 has just proven theyâll listen to him like trained dogs.
He has already started talking about more terms. If he discards the constitution, there will be nothing stopping him from taking them. Heâs currently, blatantly trying to rig a free and fair election. This has happened in other countries across the globe, and the same people who are posting âNEVER VOTE FOR BIDENâ are the same ones who post things like âJUSTICE FOR _______â when a despot steals an election.
If the incumbent president wins another term, this will be the last election we have. This will be it. This is how fascism works. This isnât slippery-slope talk. This isnât âpotential worst case scenario.â We are in the middle of the worst case scenario now.
Please. For the sake of the millions of people who will die under #45. For the sake of people who cannot survive another 4+ years. Think of Biden/Harris as a road block. A barricade. Right in the middle of the road. It stops traffic and doesnât do anything to get people where theyâre going, but at least it stops them from careening off a bridge.
If you never want to have to make this choice again, you have to fight to abolish the USâs First-Past-The-Post voting system, but it is TOO LATE to do that now. No third party candidate can win. Study the election results from the last 40 years and youâll see.
Please. Wise up. This is our last chance.
As someone who is in local leftist circles, Iâm seeing a lot of people mocking âvote blue no matter whoâ. Lately, even comparing those people with the Back The Blue movement which sides with the police against protesters. Theyâre saying that if you insist people vote Democrat, youâre basically a boot licker. Iâve been hearing, âtime to burn it all downâ.
Mmkay. When?
When is your glorious revolution going to start? Please explain your plan to me. Explain how it will topple the current government. Explain how you will install something better in its place. Explain how the new government will legitimize itself and stay in power. Now, Explain how you will do this without killing millions of poor, disabled, and marginalized people.
Oh. You donât have one of those plans? Then you have to deal with the government we actually have, not a fantasy version of it. You have to look at what you can realistically accomplish within the two party system that we have, not the fantasy multi-party system you want. You have to look at the REAL, ACTUAL candidates and say, âwhich one starts closer to my eventual goal, and which one can be moved by a sustained concerted effort?â And you have to say, âwhich one will kill the fewest people while weâre trying to fix the problems that gave us this system we hate in the first place?â
Because you cannot campaign for a ranked voting system in the eleventh hour. Itâs too fucking late. That choice isnât on the table for you anymore. Donât whine and kick your feet and refuse to take the first step towards fixing things because that step isnât big enough for you. There are hundreds of notches on the needle between Biden/Harris and all the things we want: racial Justice, indigenous land reparations, universal basic income, socialized medicine. Hundreds of notches. But if we cannot even agree to pull the needle ONE NOTCH FURTHER LEFT in unison, how the fuck are we supposed to get there? How do we ever reach a destination when half of us turn our noses up at a first step?
The Right got us here because they pull in unison. Theyâve been doing it for decades and every election, the whole country slides. There are more of us but we refuse to work together. We refuse to just decide on a first step and take it. We refuse so hard weâd rather say âburn it downâ than comprise our political purity. But I am here to tell you that no amount of philosophy is worth an ounce of praxis and your purity will not absolve you from the moral laziness of deciding your neighbors are acceptable sacrifices in the name of a brave new world.
Change requires realistic goals and sustained effort. It requires responsibility and involvement. It is measured in increments. It isnât glorious.
âBurn it all downâ only requires you to stand back and watch. So. I see y'all.
I am so scared for this election, because the number of people I see on my social media saying theyâre going to sit it out is truly alarming. please. PLEASE vote blue.
