#sure - we're going to get lots of progressive policy passed after weeding out as many progressives as possible

[nokingsonlyfooles]

The Quiet Part is Getting Louder

Here we have someone trying to primary a "squad"-aligned progressive Dem for being anti-genocide (in the most pro-Biden way possible!) and supporting the "uncommitted" protest votes. Because Trump. Also because Israel = Judaism, don't wanna leave the whole dual-loyalty thing out. Both sides are excusing the genocide and plugging antisemitic lies, that's where the Overton Window is at the moment. Even supporting Biden but maintaining that the genocide should stop is dangerous and suspicious.

So, here's the damage. People are silencing dissent (their own and that of others) because they want the Democrat to win. Because the Democrat MUST win to save democracy. So we're saving a "democracy" where dissenting against the ONE PARTY that MUST WIN is ANTI-DEMOCRACY. It's so fragile, dissent could END THE UNITED STATES.

Gee, that sounds like treason. Is dissent treason yet? We're dancing around the way it's phrased, but we're quietly treating it as if it's so. In big ways and little ways. Every time you ding someone for not being pro-Biden enough in their dislike of genocide, or for making sure their method of protest - FIRST AND FOREMOST! - won't hurt Biden's chances of winning.

If it's all about Biden winning, folks, Summer Lee and a lot of other progressives have got to sit down, shut up, or leave. These are the people that would support those progressive policies Biden wants (and so often fails) to push through, from the congressional level all the way down to your local school board. Taking a stand against genocide will knock down their numbers, and replace them with "centrists" who are willing to let it slide. And also willing to let a lot of other things slide.

So, what? Maybe progressives should quiet down about the genocide so they can all stay in office and keep reducing the harm, right? Maybe all of us should.

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. Play "Silence the Dissent to Save Democracy" and win Fascism. No matter who wins, if that's HOW they win, the democracy is over. You won't be able to vote it back to life. Voting in lock-step for one party in perpetuity for God (or Good) and Country isn't democracy. You can't save democracy that way.

I can't understand why the voices insisting that's the ONLY way to save it are so damn loud. I just... What's happened to you? Is there no way to make it un-happen?

#us politics #us news #us elections #actually saving democracy will take dissent and protest and direct action #resist #if you have to tear up everything that makes democracy function to win elections wtf are you winning? #sure - we're going to get lots of progressive policy passed after weeding out as many progressives as possible #you can always always tell yourself a story about how you're making it better because you can imagine it much worse #but i can't make myself believe it #never could