you do not understand the extent to which the democratic party serves the rich, mistreats trans people, upholds racism and patriarchy, steals our collective futures, and brutalizes the entire world
because these 10%-better-than-republicans are your entire political horizon
because these 10%-better-than-republicans are your entire political horizon
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and then a bunch of idiots come out to lecture me about how i just don't understand how Better Things Aren't Possible — precisely because they've trained themselves to resist the better thing at every step of the way
you have lived your whole life on the precipice of america falling into fascism precisely because no one with an ounce of power ever, ever wanted to move away from that perilous edge
but this big gun that's going off right now has been baked into our system perpetually, on purpose — the nazi filth are capital's antibodies against any trace of human liberation
*those* are the chickens coming home to roost right now.
The effort required to keep USA from falling into fascism was titanic. If some helped push in hopes that the fascism will bypass them or will be easy to get out of, will be in for a wild ride.
the effort required to keep the u.s. from falling into fascism is titanic and the democratic party refuses to do most of it altogether, while actively building the systems fascists will use to repress us
democratic-party electeds might be useful once in a blue moon but we are sooo fucked if we continue to treat them as our wise agenda-defining "leaders"