Honestly, I think you’re being more than fair in calling out someone who refuses to do one of the most basic actions to slow the roll of naked fascism.
Like you, I get the pull of not wanting to participate in the shit system and normalizing the shitty behaviors we’re seeing in government, but the fact of the matter is that this disengagement with electoralism is exactly the reason we’re in the situation we’re in. Too many people treat politics as a purity contest and are willing to take their ball and go home no matter the consequences rather than engage and vote for someone moderately distasteful even in the face of naked evil.
Fascists already have enough power to sway the system in their favour, to use the government for their ends. Voting is not change, it is harm reduction. It is trying to cede as little ground as possible to fascists for as much time as possible, buying time to effect real change before we are all disappeared and shipped off to some concentration camp somewhere. Taking real political action gets exponentially harder everytime the fascists get more power. And in the last election, they have gotten a lot more power.
100% this. I get so sick of supposed activists who can’t even be bothered to do the least amount of work reduce the harm against their per causes, even when one of the options is objectively much, much worse. The obsession with purity politics is one of the biggest weapons that can be welded against their cause, given that it can be used to break the back of popular support of someone they even partially agree with to let the right take power again.
Maybe one day we will collectively learn this lesson. But I’m not holding my breath.
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Honestly, I think you’re being more than fair in calling out someone who refuses to do one of the most basic actions to slow the roll of naked fascism.
Like you, I get the pull of not wanting to participate in the shit system and normalizing the shitty behaviors we’re seeing in government, but the fact of the matter is that this disengagement with electoralism is exactly the reason we’re in the situation we’re in. Too many people treat politics as a purity contest and are willing to take their ball and go home no matter the consequences rather than engage and vote for someone moderately distasteful even in the face of naked evil.
100% this. I get so sick of supposed activists who can’t even be bothered to do the least amount of work reduce the harm against their per causes, even when one of the options is objectively much, much worse. The obsession with purity politics is one of the biggest weapons that can be welded against their cause, given that it can be used to break the back of popular support of someone they even partially agree with to let the right take power again.
Maybe one day we will collectively learn this lesson. But I’m not holding my breath.