electoralism

Good article. It’s not the main point but I liked this section:

The lie that Obama is Muslim was always code for ​“He’s Black.” But in 2008 liberals couldn’t say that they wouldn’t vote for someone who is Black. Post-racial anti-Blackness had to be more subtle. After seven years of the War on Terror, it was widely accepted that Muslims are subhuman and our lives disposable. So it was easy for people to simply say that they wouldn’t vote for someone who is Muslim.

It never occurred to me - though it’s obvious to me now - that all the accusations of Obama being a Muslim were really just the way white folks were able to launder their unwillingness to accept a black man as president. That’s why they doggedly held on to that belief despite how it was so obviously not true.

Sorry sweatie, but Trump would commit even more genocide! Vote for diet genocide, Biden 2024!

"When you vote for the lesser of two evils what happens? You always get evil, and you always get less" - who knows but I heard it somewhere

Ayoub also posted: ​“This onslaught on Gaza teaches us one VITAL lesson as Arabs and Muslims. The whole ​‘seat at the table’ strategy is a FAILURE. Being token parts of the Democratic Party, ​‘the inside game,’ can’t even deliver a Ceasefire on Gaza. It can’t even slow a Genocide of Palestinians enabled by Biden, Kamala Harris, and the ​‘Diversity & Inclusion’ Democrats who throw Arab and Muslims under the same table they strove to sit at.”

where do you come from?
where do you go?
I'll never vote for Genocide Joe

The lesser evil argument for Biden is very weird to me because as a non-American it doesn't materially seem better than Trump. Objectively it's been equally bad if not worse, and while not all of that is due to particular features of Trump or the Dems, a think a decent amount is due to how viciously hawkish and shamelessly imperialist the Biden regime has been, from Ukraine to Israel and a lot more in between. Like on the international level I'd argue that Biden has been demonstrably more destructive.

The most convincing 'lesser-evil' argument seems to me to basically be that a Trump presidency would be worse for minorities, for immigrants, non-white people, and LGBT people. Now I agree that they would be more likely to introduce federal-level legislation if they could, but I also haven't seen any real effort by the Biden gov to combat transphobic legislation by fascistic Republicans at the state or local level, or to do anything real for them for that matter. Again LGBT folks and racial minorities are a woke virtue-signalling marketing asset to be invested in for the Dems, as they base their electoral campaigns now no longer on class points, no longer appealing to working class interests (whereas the Republicans have positioned themselves as doing so), but instead appealing to those with college educations. I have comrades who argue that Trump would crack down harder on the left and make it more difficult to organize, but I'm not completely convinced by this. It's not become easier under Biden.

In any event, I don't know how people can make a non-nationalist lesser-evil argument once you've seen Biden literally go on stage with Bibi and give unconditional support to apartheid, settler-colonialism and ethinic cleansing.

The only problem here is that democrats don't care if they lose - it just means going back to being in the opposition and fleecing the ~~rubes~~ ~~true believers~~ Democratic voting base by sending increasingly apocalyptic emails about whatever shit would've been happening anyway regardless of who's in charge. I'd be willing to bet money that if the voting base got whittled down to one guy in Toledo named Dave the whole system would continue to lurch on and we'd get breathless news about how the latest mass casualty shooting was influencing the Daveometer. Voter participation is just window dressing at this point.

I can tell ya that my DSA chapter says voting for Biden is a vote for democracy

Is it new comrade season again already?

Why I Won't Vote by W. E. B. DuBois, The Nation, 20 October 1956

I was already done with Biden because of his support for the RESTRICT act, but with recent events that seems kinda mundane now, can't believe how big a hole he's dug for himself

B-BUT PROJECT 2025. THE REPUBLICANS ARE GOING TO ERADICATE 95% OF THE US POPULATION AND PUSH THE HANDMAIDENS TALE BUTTON. I'VE WATCHED OVER 2600 HOURS OF THIS ON YOUTUBE BY THE MOST ACADEMICALLY RIGOROUS BREADTUBERS SO I KNOW EXACTLY WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT.