As someone deported under the Obama administration, whose 10 yr ban was signed by Clinton, whose 3 year removal proceedings took place under Bush, seeing y'all insist on support for Biden and Kamala and for silence and complicity from everyone else is how we got Trxmp
Thank God I do not see my empowerment on my inability to vote in Stateside elections, or see the end of my duties towards those struggling here in just *voting*

When I used to organize stateside and spoke against Dems, the most common way people tried to silence me was by asking
"Did you vote?" and imagine if that was the extent of my power. This lack of imagination and insistence that we all fall behind and support US imperialism is basura. Obama *was* putting kids in cages. Y'all just didn't care bc it was your team in the white house.
Obama *still* deported more people than Trxmp has to date. Can you imagine that? With the staggering violence Trxmp has done, try to imagine that. Someone being more violent in several aspects than Trxmp.
During Obama years, Central American children who were refugees were turned away at the border. Biden refuses to pass Health Care for All. I do not understand this insistence that the Dems are going to make it better.
When Obama took over Bush, he didn't repeal the Patriot Act, close Guantánamo, or dissolve ICE and Homeland Security. He bailed out banks. He droned families and children in the middle east. He barely passed DACA. He deported and caged children.
Please just wake up for two seconds and push for something better. Voting Blue is gonna feel like a break, sure, but for who? And how is that any safety from someone worse than Trxmp coming in after?
Y'all didn't think there could be worse than Bush, and here we are. You don't think there's worse than Trxmp? You say "Trxmp is the racist backlash to a black president". What's gonna be the "backlash" y'all hide behind when a Black woman (who, mind you, built her career and
got to where she is by criminalizing and jailing black and brown ppl) is in power? Is she not gonna be accountable either?

Please, think beyond voting. This moment demands that you do.
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