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REMINDER: corporatism IS fascism. USA's political elites are controlled by unelected corporatist oligarchs for whom politics isn't about party or nation but business. checkout how the DNC wants to price out the little people from their fundraisers. this is literal corporate capture but with political parties because oligarchs only care about the state violence they can capture & profit from.

> How Biden aides are trying to shield the president from protests
nbcnews.com/politics/joe-biden

NBC News · How Biden aides are trying to shield the president from protestsBy Monica Alba

IF YOU WERE NEVER INVOLVED IN POLITICS TIL TRUMP, LEARN ONE THING:

the DNC have always two-timed grassroots activists, no matter how much money they raise for local or state democrats or the DNC itself.

that's why they're pricing out the grassroots nationwide. the bootlicking elite of the DNC depend on billionaire money.

corruption is the gateway to fascism. it's a historical fact.

the corporate capture of today isn't new. it is the 1939 corporatism that never went away.

🗣️ THIS IS WHY YOU VOTE WITH YOUR PROTEST BOOTS ON

i keep repeating: DEMAND democrats, especially the leadership, say they're antifascist and take note of who does and doesn't.

because it should have made people cringe when an unhinged Nancy Pelosi went on tv in the bowels of Congress to declare WE ARE CAPITALISTS.

who is we? the working classes are not the ones making money out of insider knowledge with a portfolio that has it's own fucking subreddit.

that's her and her cronies, not us.

YES, NO REPUBLICAN SHOULD ENTER THE WHITE HOUSE IN A CENTURY

but if all Dems are gonna be like Biden? then neither should the corporatist bootlickers of the Democratic Party.

and that's why i insist in making a distinction between them and people like AOC or Rashid. especially, Bloomberg's existential threat, Elizabeth Warren.

and then there's Bernie Sanders who was smart enough to leave the party back in the day because he knew the fuckery that was Clintonism.

VOTING IS HARM REDUCTION

VOTING IS HARM REDUCTION
it's not a mandate when the opposition is fascist and the billionaire donors of your party's elite are part of that fascist opposition.

VOTING FOR POTUS ONLY MATTERS IN SWING PRECINCTS
not having direct democracy is why it's easy for oligarchs to buy themselves a party. even the Greens, btw.

so don't worry about some shmuck in NYC not voting. worry about people not voting in fucking Maricopa county.

you're white in the South? STFU & hit the pavement

IF YOU ARE WHITE AND IN A SWING DISTRICT, GO TO WORK

it's not Darnell from the Bronx's job to get your neighbors to the polling places.

especially if they're young or Black or both. that's your job.

don't berate BIPOC or LGBTQI people online for telling you the truth about the fascism in this country: it's always been here, it's just been called Manifest Destiny, white supremacy, racism, homophobia, sexism.

so go to work. we all have different work to do

BUT REMEMBER:
VOTING IS HARM REDUCTION
that means you won't be able to delude yourself that you are done just by voting.

let me say it again, with the chest:

🗣️ VOTING IS HARM REDUCTION. YOUR WORK IS NOT DONE BY JUST VOTING.

you know this has always been true, but now, you cannot continue pretending it was "those other people's problem". we didn't even have to tell you. Biden has shown his true political face and it's ugly.

so prepare to not rest until you stomp the last fascist

THIS IS WHY SELF-CARE IS POLITICAL WARFARE because there was never a democracy after all and the job will not be done come November.

it's just that you chose to pretend racism, sexism, misogyny, homophobia, xenophobia, classism —all the social and political and economic hates and phobias— had nothing to do to with .

yet here we are.

so prepare yourself to fight Biden & his brand of Democrats even harder for the bare minimum. they'll sell everybody out for a bad win

AND WHY AM CALLING Y'ALL WHITE PEOPLE OUT especially if y'all out in the south? because more White people voted for Trump, a Republican, in 2020 than at any time in USA history. in the middle of a pandemic. after sitting at the last minute another illegitimate SCOTUS justice to the bench, Amy Barret Cohen, a woman who is literally in her thiclose to heretical flavor of Catholicism, a handmaiden.

61% of white men and 55% of white women voted for Trump in 2020.

that wasn't us. that was you.

@blogdiva As someone in a county that voted 78% for Biden and had 86% turnout, I’m not sure where to focus my efforts, because local-to-me isn’t a problem. I have a small family with no one in swing or red states.

Best I can do is try to extend my reach by amplifying others and contributing to tight races, particularly those with liberal to progressive candidates.

@deirdresm @blogdiva
I’m in a similar situation, and here’s my thinking:

Pay attention to state and local races, and push the envelope of justice within each district. Are there city council candidates willing to check police power? State candidates ready to defend abortion rights?

(For example: I’m knocking doors for •someone• this fall, likely Ilhan Omar.)

We can vote for harm reduction in the presidential race •and• vote for more appealing candidates in local races.

@inthehands @blogdiva

Great metric. Because of the potential crisis in secretaries of state, I’ve been focusing on those races, particularly in swing states.

I’ve also been looking at AG races as that affects a ton of people’s lives. A good AG/DA vs. a bad one can be a huge change in local justice, particularly in states with abortion restrictions.

@deirdresm @blogdiva
AG/DA is a great example. Ask me how George Floyd’s murderers were convincted, and I’ll tell you about how a good state AG (Keith Ellison) yanked the case out from under a bad county DA (Mike Freeman) that most people had never paid even minute’s attention to until he nearly botched (or buried) one of the biggest cases in MN history.

your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦

@inthehands @deirdresm also, school elections boards. was thinking all day, maybe it's time to put together a list things people could do beside giving money... or complaining, LOL. people showing up at places the mainstream has forgotten does make a difference. there's many ways of showing up. it's also a good way of reminding people that disabled people do vote and have long histories of political engagement.

@blogdiva @inthehands Rick and I have tried on school boards, but have found candidate statements are often deliberately generic to the point of being misleading.

That’s one case where it’s super easy to do far more harm than good if you’re not super high information about each possible candidate.

We try, though!

One of our county supervisors hates parking, and as a disabled person with POTS who needs proximity, I always give him a good snarl. :(

@deirdresm @blogdiva
Public info on school board races is typically next to useless. Find a friend or two who works in the local public schools, and they’ll tell you what’s on the teacher grapevine.

@inthehands @blogdiva I need to leverage my cat’s special access for sure. (She has her own decorated box in the principal’s office!)

We’ve found listening to the public zoom meetings rage-inducing at times. :(

@inthehands @deirdresm that! if you had kids, go have a convo with the teachers. also, find out from them if the school or parents' groups need help on election day with childcare, food and that sort of thing. that's an election focused kind of organizing that people don't think of but is so needed. sending food to the schools can make a difference on that day.

@inthehands @deirdresm but there's other actions that do not have to be related to actual voting day. i'll start an open thread when i get some spoons for it.

@inthehands @deirdresm @blogdiva what the teachers want isn’t always ideal - in my kids’ district the teachers were on the right side of the recent Moms for Bigotry takeover attempt, but many teachers at the “good” (rich, underpopulated) middle school oppose changing the lines so that there isn’t a “bad” (poor, overcrowded) one anymore. Everything has to be interpreted in context

@njwatt @deirdresm @blogdiva
Yes, of course, teachers are all people and people have all kinds of opinions. Taking things at face value in a 1:1 conversation is no less foolish than taking them at face value in public statements. But the original request was about where to find data given scant news coverage, and teachers and their opinions will provide data aplenty.

@deirdresm @inthehands am out of spoons but will definitely come back to this the next few days and start an open thread of things folks can do now, during & after the vote

@blogdiva @inthehands Totally understand. May your spoon recovery be swift. ❤️

@blogdiva @deirdresm
All that. Showing up with annoying frequency at underattended local events is something I’d like to get better at.