Well, once again it’s voting day in Burgerland.
Once again the electoralists are crying and urging us to dutifully head to the polls and throw in our lots.
One again certain leftist orgs are selling out their “revolutionary” values and pandering to reformism.
Here we are.
According to a UN report released 2 months ago, 2022 has been a year of unprecedented regression of LGBT rights in the United States. The blue party holds the presidency, as well as both houses of congress, and across the nation, reactionaries have never before gained more ground in their bloody war on the LGBT, women, and all other minorities. Yet the “harm reduction” advocates are still barking at us.
Make no mistake, if voting costs little effort for you personally, and you can materially improve the conditions in your local area, you should be all means. That being said, the leaders of certain “leftist” orgs in the US have been pushing a hard “vote blue” campaign on a national level and when they do this, they directly undermine our struggle.
While it’s fine and good for you and I to go to the polls and try to keep murderous anti-trans people off the school board, when a national organisation with supposedly “Marxist-Leninist” intentions expends its energy urging the masses toward electoral solutions, they are directly undermining the process of left wing radicalisation.
Comrades, it’s easy for the, mostly cis-het white men, who run some of these orgs to do this. They aren’t dying. Their material interests are better served by preserving respectability and stability in society than they would be by agitating for revolution. Every time they use their platforms to urge voting, they are demonstrating to the not-yet-radicalised that electoralism may still be the solution. Their “harm reduction” strategy doesn’t even bear fruits anymore, meanwhile our fellow LGBT and other minority comrades are dying.
I strongly urge you to join whatever organisations you can and struggle against these electoralist currents. One of the hardest struggles we face is getting people to look beyond the ballot box for solutions to the threats they face, and without us advocating militant, principled, and revolutionary action, we’re just running out the clock at the cost of our comrades lives.
Stay safe. uwu
My lefty friend from the states is voting and i asked him why and he said its all about local politics and stopping the literally open fascists from running the schools in his area.
ya that’s definitely valid and i usually do the same thing on a local level. i just don’t think it’s good for “revolutionary” orgs to make it their messaging to vote for dems
It is def weird when leftist orgs are like super excited about oting for nancy pelosi lol
Have you not heard of the new synthesis, Marxism-Leninism-Pelosism?
yah, I don’t like any of em
VOOOOOTTTT!!! HARDER! so f*cking ahrd
I could be wrong but I think Dems don’t hold Senate it’s split 50-50 I think, Bernie and one other candidate campaigns with Democrats but are Independent in name only
correct. it is split 50/50 however the dems also hold the presidency so the VP could break a senate tie making it 51/50. there’s nothing stopping them from doing that other than that they don’t give a fuck
You got me there I forgot the tiebreaking role. At this point tho Manchin and Sinema should just become Republicans(not really tho, from their perspective they stand to make much more money from Special Interest groups by blocking bills from Dems rather than actively trying to be a Republican)
oh of course. people say shit like “well those two are practically republicans” as if it’s some excuse for them when really it’s like discipline your party. i don’t care if it’s hard for the voters in west virginia to stomach this shit is actually important, but nah.
nah they just tell us to send money to defeat X republican in Y state meanwhile the democrats spend millions of dollars pushing the absolute most reactionary shit there is to shift the window so far right that they can continue doing nothing and calling it progress meanwhile my comrades are dying
