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Back because I can’t tear myself away from the news. Here’s what needs to happen:
- you need to assume that the Republicans are going to nominate someone and you need to assume that McConnell will do everything in his power to ram them through. and he will probably succeed.
- you need to assume that the Republicans are going to nominate someone and you need to assume that McConnell will do everything in his power to ram them through. and he will probably succeed.
- you need to find out who your senators are. what committees are they on? are they up for re-election this year? pressure the living shit out of them not to vote a trump nominee through.
- you need to stop hanging people to your left out to dry and throwing them under the bus. and commit to learning from them. I know it’s satisfying to be indignant about leftist bros, but this is a war and leftists are the people facing down the line of bayonets.
- you need to commit to some kind of organizing long term. I’m sorry to say this, but both Dems and Republicans are the parties of capital. which means Dems are actually perfectly content to keep losing and never gain power.
cont’d — the right is GOOD at this. they are committed to organizing for power and they have succeeded. are you as committed as they are? are you as scared as I am? study their tactics and join something that you can contribute to over a period of decades.
- you need to stop taking the Democrats’ or ActBlue’s or the Pod Save America guys’ word for what political actions should be taken next. Remember, it’s all the same to all of them whether they win or lose.
It goes against ALL my hotline training to use directive language like this, and I don’t want to make it seem like I think I have all the answers. I don’t. I don’t know what’s going to happen and I’m scared. But —
The stakes have long been too high for the kind of performative reactivity that characterizes liberal politics in this country, and just for higher. People’s lives are, as ever, at stake. We need commitment, strategy, and deliberate action.
There’s a period of continuing to get our asses kicked built in to whatever we do. “Change” happens on a time scale of lifetimes. But if we don’t get serious it’s only ratcheting one way.
Last thing: cordon sentimentality off from the politically productive part of you. I understand feeling sentimental about figures like RBG, but Supreme Court justices are people who wield power over us, not our friends. Sentimentality won't get us out of the mess they put us in.
