People are treating protests of Biden as if it’s the same as wanting Trump to win. People are so committed to the electoral team sports that they’re completely allergic to exercising their power against their own party.
There’s a reason why civil rights movements existed almost entirely outside of electoral politics; liberty and justice were never on the ballet to vote for to begin with.
If MLK resigned himself to what Democrats were willing to provide without protest, we’d still have segregation. If Douglass avoided speaking truth to power and rallying against Lincoln, we might not have abolished slavery and reconstruction might have been even worse (though admittedly reconstruction was shit anyway, but at least that wasn’t Lincoln’s fault).
First: lol no. It isnt the same as wanting trump to win, but ill grant that it does effectively hurt his chances ?in the case he remains unmoving.*
Second: protest of Biden is only damaging to his campaign if you think Biden only has to not be Trump, and isn’t capable of hurting his own chances by doing something exceedingly dumb, like publicly funding a genocide.
Those of us protesting him now are doing him a favor by giving him a chance to address the issues that would otherwise tank him.
Go ahead and try and convince me that the 64% of voters who disapprove of Israel’s action in Gaza aren’t less likely to vote for Biden if he continues funding them.
Thank you for saying that, truly.
People are treating protests of Biden as if it’s the same as wanting Trump to win. People are so committed to the electoral team sports that they’re completely allergic to exercising their power against their own party.
There’s a reason why civil rights movements existed almost entirely outside of electoral politics; liberty and justice were never on the ballet to vote for to begin with.
If MLK resigned himself to what Democrats were willing to provide without protest, we’d still have segregation. If Douglass avoided speaking truth to power and rallying against Lincoln, we might not have abolished slavery and reconstruction might have been even worse (though admittedly reconstruction was shit anyway, but at least that wasn’t Lincoln’s fault).
It effectively is, in a lot of areas.
MLK would say to vote your conscience in the primaries. Not the general.
First: lol no. It isnt the same as wanting trump to win, but ill grant that it does effectively hurt his chances ?in the case he remains unmoving.*
Second: protest of Biden is only damaging to his campaign if you think Biden only has to not be Trump, and isn’t capable of hurting his own chances by doing something exceedingly dumb, like publicly funding a genocide.
Those of us protesting him now are doing him a favor by giving him a chance to address the issues that would otherwise tank him.
Now there’s some whacky mental acrobatics.
Go ahead and try and convince me that the 64% of voters who disapprove of Israel’s action in Gaza aren’t less likely to vote for Biden if he continues funding them.
No, I don’t think I will.
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