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We need to stop seeing politicians as our fucking parents, or potential spouses, or soulmates or whatever, and start seeing them as people we hire to do a fucking job.
I do not doubt that every single politician holds views, or has performed actions that I find absolutely morally abhorrent.
That’s fine. I’m not asking them to help me raise my children.
That’s fine. I’m not asking them to help me raise my children.
I’m asking them to help *legislate* a marginally better society within the deeply, *deeply* flawed system we have. They’re not my mum, or my grandad, or whatever the latest fan culture is for them.
Parasocial relationships with public figures will only hurt you.
Parasocial relationships with public figures will only hurt you.
Worse than that - they will further distort the broken systems we have in to some bizarre popularity contest dominated by cults of personality. Which is how, for the record, the UK got its current shit show.
(And the US got the one it’s hopefully just exiting...)
You don’t have to *trust* her. You don’t even have to like her. You just have to believe she will be better than marginally sympathetic to the things you care about when you campaign.
You don’t have to *trust* her. You don’t even have to like her. You just have to believe she will be better than marginally sympathetic to the things you care about when you campaign.
She is not above critique. She is not above criticism. But she had a better record on trans issues than most. She certainly has a better record on trans issues than fucking Pence, which is the issue here.
You are not going to institute anarcho-syndicalism over night. You scarcely got the goddamn fascist out of office. You are not going to do away with transphobia or a carceral state without first changing the landscape in which you are operating.
I am, I admit, losing my temper a little here.
Look. These are big goals. They are worth having, worth fighting for - but they are as yet fringe opinions. That can, will, and possibly *must* change.
But you need, sometimes, a fucking reality check.
Look. These are big goals. They are worth having, worth fighting for - but they are as yet fringe opinions. That can, will, and possibly *must* change.
But you need, sometimes, a fucking reality check.
(I realise not all of my followers are anti carceral anarchists. But, you know, insert your favoured flavour of utopia, because at this stage, the point is relatively academic.)
