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[–] dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (1 children)

I can't tell if you're thinking clearly ... Democrats are the only reason the anti-trans movement has been unable to pass legislation aimed at putting me in prisons and restricting my rights, Democrats are the only reason the current administration has been unable to even get a trans athletic ban passed

They are absolutely complicit, even in the anti-trans movement, but this kind of rigid and black-and-white thinking is genuinely unhelpful if you are at all invested in political outcomes.

Maybe you are insulated from those outcomes, but I am not - my entire life has been radically altered due to the success of the Republican party and their platform.

I am a leftist (not a liberal, not a Democrat), but despite being an anti-Democrat leftist, I also had to flee a Republican-controlled state because I feared for my life, was subject to genocidal practices like social death, and had my healthcare illegally denied. And where was the only refuge? A Democrat-controlled state whose laws protect me, guarantee my access to care, etc. - these laws matter, my life is on the line here, and you are going to claim this is nothing, that they're too complicit for this difference to count as "opposition" for you?

All I can think is that you are deeply unserious and sheltered from the political realities in this country.

Pragmatic cooperation with problematic allies is sometimes necessary for survival, I would argue electoral support of Democrats is an easy and minimal action anyone who cares about political outcomes should engage in.

Obviously it's important that our politics do not remain restricted to that single act of voting (or as liberals often do, only expanding that to donations to political campaigns); our political actions are much more relevant when organizing in the workplace and finding ways to use our power to apply pressure to achieve the outcomes that matter most (e.g. direct action, protests, etc.).

EDIT: It was probably a mistake spending time trying to explain the obvious to you, your other comments show that either your thinking is rather hindered, or you are not engaging in good faith and have ulterior motives (whether trolling, or undermining the alliances between leftists and liberals that strengthen the resistance against the right, either because you're a fascist yourself, or because you're a foreign actor - whether Israeli, Russian, Chinese, etc. - motivated by sowing dissent and distrust)

[–] ClassStruggle@lemmy.ml 1 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (1 children)

Eventually you will see they use marginalized communities as disposable political pawns. We saw those cracks start to form with Harris. OUR acceptance in society has always come in peaks and troughs, we have been sliding into a trough for about 12 years and soon those you thought were allies will turn their back on you.

Republicans have only been in a position to be openly bigoted because spineless Dems that keep shifting to the right with them have allowed it to happen. Fucking Democrats cheered on Biden's RFMA, which places us back into a position of second class citizen once Obergefell gets overturned.

Democrats will pretend to care as long as they find you useful

You can't claim to be a leftist and advocate for aligning with capitalists

[–] ClassStruggle@lemmy.ml 1 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

Eventually you will see they use marginalized communities as disposable political pawns. We saw those cracks start to form with Harris. OUR acceptance in society has always come in peaks and troughs, we have been sliding into a trough for about 12 years and soon those you thought were allies will turn their back on you.

Republicans have only been in a position to be openly bigoted because spineless Dems that keep shifting to the right with them have allowed it to happen. Fucking Democrats cheered on Biden's RFMA, which places us back into a position of second class citizen once Obergefell gets overturned.

Democrats will pretend to care as long as they find you useful

There is no alliance between liberals and leftists because we don't want the same things, we are on the opposite end of the political spectrum. Democrats are the covert fascist to the open Republican one

You can't claim to be a leftist while trying to align with capitalists.