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504BatteryDr (@504DR) · 12/2022 · Tröts: 26.576 · Folger: 700
Mi 07.08.2024 22:38
Feeling Good Doesn't Require the Democrats
Vicky Osterweil
Aug 7, 2024 • 11 min read
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The Democrats, the media and the establishment have spent the last nine years gaslighting us: calling people protecting trees, forests and waterways unhinged extremists and calling nazis misunderstood citizens with real concerns; responding to cops murdering black people by giving them raises but calling the friends and loved ones who light those pigs' cars on fire violent criminals; exonerating Kyle Rittenhouse driving dozens of miles across state lines with an AR to murder activists as "self-defense" and letting him tour the country as a celebrity but sending out a federal death squad to gun down Michael Reinoehl in the street days after he actually defended himself against a Nazi attack; etc. etc.
The fact that the Dems have stopped telling us the most vicious of these lies, that they've taken on a strategy other than slapping us in the face and telling us we better like it because the other guy is worse, this fact gives us more psychic, emotional and political room to maneuver, to fight them, the bastards who've abused us and done this to us for nine years going on five hundred and thirty two. As Talia Lavin wrote this week, it will be an incredible relief when we no longer have to hear Trump, think about the man, or watch all the serious minded liberals and pundits pretend that its important we take him seriously.
We can also recognize that some of the people feeling joy and relief aren't necessarily "back to brunch" liberals, are comrades who have gotten a little bit carried away, that here at perhaps the end of this absolutely miserable decade-long 2016, we can understand taking what succor we can whatever way we can. It is not weak or liberal or wrong to feel joy, or hope, or believe that things might change for the better for once. It has only been two weeks.
But the thing is we do not, under any circumstances, have to hand it to them. We don't have to thank the Dems for turning around and doing the most basic thing they tell us politicians should do, pretending to listen to their constituents and pushing back against a sundowning rapist bragging that he is going to be dictator.
And if we really want to enjoy the feeling of Trump's political destruction – assuming we actually are witnessing the beginning of his end – the Democrats are a trap. Transferring our feeling of joy at fascism's faltering into gratitude and affection for Harris and Walz may feel easy and satisfying now, after all, there's momentum, a massive apparatus of spectacle ready to capture your attention and your affect via rallies, speeches and memes. But the Dems have been just as complicit in producing the crushing despair, hopelessness and violence of the last decade, and we shouldn't offer them the gift of our joy, this little flame of love and hope we've kept alive despite all their violence.
If we take that flame and instead spread it among our peers, point it towards the people who have fought by our side, if we can use that relief and that mental space and capacity as the spark for new projects, if we do everything we can to send it to Gaza, to double down on our resistance to this ongoing genocide, to protect support and care for one another, then and only then might we build a world where such joy might flourish at all times and in all places, a world beyond, against and without Republicans, Democrats, states or capital.
https://all-cats-are-beautiful.ghost.io/feeling-good-doesnt-require-the-democrats/
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