I am not repeating what you said, we have fundamentally different understandings of this system. Trump and Biden are both puppets of an imperial machine. You are trying to play strategist for the Democrats, my interest is in ending the machine. You are under the illusion that Trump emerged out of left field and is operating of his own accord, I am aware that he’s just a slight rebranding of establishment policy made to look like some kind of wildcard.
Your understanding of my point is incorrect. I am under no such illusion. Your interest in “ending the machine” lacks praxis to accomplish that goal. My interest is in Democratic strategy only insofar that it is a stopgap solution to that very same goal. I have no interest in equivocating liberals and fascists. Certainly, the one begets the other, in the same way a tiger cub will become an adult tiger, but I am more confident in our ability to overcome a cub than an adult tiger.
I seek Democratic victory only insofar that I do not see a mature threat to the establishment, and I seek an establishment party which is easier to subvert in the meantime, while meaningful praxis matures. Slow descent into fascism is preferable to accelerated descent into fascism, because I do not believe that accelerationism is in the interest of the people. The risk of enduring fascism is too high.
Now kiss. We’re all on the same side here. Left infighting is what has doomed us all. Yes Trump is a disgusting capitalist bigot piece of shit, but that’s what the American people want. They may be too fucking dumb but they want the system to change and Trump is offering to flip the whole table.
Stop fucking fighting and let’s figure out what to do.
Once again, focus on rhetoric. The people want a compelling narrative. All the policy in the world means nothing if the people aren’t buying. The people are dumb, they want entertaining stories. Give them what they want, instead of convincing them they should want something else.
No, not really. That carries an incredible amount of personal risk. As bad as things are, they’re nowhere near get-shot-in-the-street-by-the-military-fighting-for-liberty bad yet.
The democrats and their stupid supporters suck all the air out of the room and frustrate real leftist change. They waste everyone’s time and energy on electoralism only to back stab their supporters. Fuck them. Let’s kill the democrat party once and for all they deserve to no longer be a political party after this election loss. They lost on purpose in service to capital. Liberals can’t get that through their thick fucking heads.
DEMOCRATS WOULD RATHER LOSE TO FASCISTS THAN APPEASE THE LEFT.
Repeat that a million times until it sinks through. They are a waste of time.
Let’s kill the democrat party once and for all they deserve to no longer be a political party
Maybe we should focus on killing the MAGA party first tho. What possible benefit is there in going from “bad party vs worse party” to “worse party vs countless splintered leftist factions”? Your order of operations is all wrong, if we’re going to kill a party, let’s focus on the actively fascist one first.
You don’t topple electoralism overnight, we need a functional alternative first. Otherwise you’re just handing control over to the fascists. Uncoordinated discontent isn’t going to cut it. We need actual organization with an actual plan of action. The time and energy “wasted” on electoralism is miniscule, there’s plenty available to back alternatives once a workable alternative is actually presented. Present it.
The fascist one is popular. You’re not going to kill it when the country was founded on the prototypes to fascism.
What’s needed is a real alternative that is the opposite of fascism and not just fascism lite. Why vote for the fascism lite party when you can just have the real thing?
Again, the fascism lite party would rather lose to the full blown fascists than cede any power to the left. the fascism lite party needs to be fully replaced by an anti fascist one if we’re gonna play electoralism.
The fascist one is popular. You’re not going to kill it when the country was founded on the prototypes to fascism.
So your response to a popular fascist party is to… destroy the only party with enough popularity to slow it down? Bold strategy, Cotton.
What’s needed is a real alternative that is the opposite of fascism and not just fascism lite.
Fully agreed, but maybe let’s build that before getting rid of the lite version. I’d rather fight a bear with a shotgun than a stick, but I’m not going to throw away my stick in the hope that I’ll just stumble upon a shotgun before the bear kills me. I’m swinging that stick with everything I’ve got up until the exact moment I have something better to replace it.
So your response to a popular fascist party is to… destroy the only party with enough popularity to slow it down?
That’s why they lost the whole country in a landslide? Federal, state and local elections? Fucking cringe ass liberals coping and seething.
Democrats won’t let us build an alternative because they’re too busy sucking all the oxygen in the fucking room and wasting everyone’s time and energy. They need to go the way of the whigs, fucking yesterday.
That’s why they lost the whole country in a landslide?
They still got nearly half of the vote, they lost by less than 2%. The real landslide losers were literally every other party.
Democrats won’t let us build an alternative
I didn’t realize we needed their permission.
they’re too busy sucking all the oxygen in the fucking room and wasting everyone’s time and energy.
Again, absolutely minuscule waste of time and energy. The vast majority of voters literally just show up and tick a box. No one is stopping you from dedicating your time and energy to alternatives. Voters just aren’t stupid enough to throw away their bear-fighting stick just because you tell them a hypothetical shotgun would be better. Bring the shotgun and we can talk.
They need to go the way of the whigs, fucking yesterday.
Are you under the impression that the Whigs just… disappeared one day and everything was fine? There were years of chaos culminating in the Civil War.
I am not repeating what you said, we have fundamentally different understandings of this system. Trump and Biden are both puppets of an imperial machine. You are trying to play strategist for the Democrats, my interest is in ending the machine. You are under the illusion that Trump emerged out of left field and is operating of his own accord, I am aware that he’s just a slight rebranding of establishment policy made to look like some kind of wildcard.
Your understanding of my point is incorrect. I am under no such illusion. Your interest in “ending the machine” lacks praxis to accomplish that goal. My interest is in Democratic strategy only insofar that it is a stopgap solution to that very same goal. I have no interest in equivocating liberals and fascists. Certainly, the one begets the other, in the same way a tiger cub will become an adult tiger, but I am more confident in our ability to overcome a cub than an adult tiger.
I seek Democratic victory only insofar that I do not see a mature threat to the establishment, and I seek an establishment party which is easier to subvert in the meantime, while meaningful praxis matures. Slow descent into fascism is preferable to accelerated descent into fascism, because I do not believe that accelerationism is in the interest of the people. The risk of enduring fascism is too high.
Now kiss. We’re all on the same side here. Left infighting is what has doomed us all. Yes Trump is a disgusting capitalist bigot piece of shit, but that’s what the American people want. They may be too fucking dumb but they want the system to change and Trump is offering to flip the whole table.
Stop fucking fighting and let’s figure out what to do.
Once again, focus on rhetoric. The people want a compelling narrative. All the policy in the world means nothing if the people aren’t buying. The people are dumb, they want entertaining stories. Give them what they want, instead of convincing them they should want something else.
Is a fucking fist in the air and the rifle in the other attractive enough yet?
No, not really. That carries an incredible amount of personal risk. As bad as things are, they’re nowhere near get-shot-in-the-street-by-the-military-fighting-for-liberty bad yet.
The democrats and their stupid supporters suck all the air out of the room and frustrate real leftist change. They waste everyone’s time and energy on electoralism only to back stab their supporters. Fuck them. Let’s kill the democrat party once and for all they deserve to no longer be a political party after this election loss. They lost on purpose in service to capital. Liberals can’t get that through their thick fucking heads.
DEMOCRATS WOULD RATHER LOSE TO FASCISTS THAN APPEASE THE LEFT.
Repeat that a million times until it sinks through. They are a waste of time.
Maybe we should focus on killing the MAGA party first tho. What possible benefit is there in going from “bad party vs worse party” to “worse party vs countless splintered leftist factions”? Your order of operations is all wrong, if we’re going to kill a party, let’s focus on the actively fascist one first.
You don’t topple electoralism overnight, we need a functional alternative first. Otherwise you’re just handing control over to the fascists. Uncoordinated discontent isn’t going to cut it. We need actual organization with an actual plan of action. The time and energy “wasted” on electoralism is miniscule, there’s plenty available to back alternatives once a workable alternative is actually presented. Present it.
The fascist one is popular. You’re not going to kill it when the country was founded on the prototypes to fascism.
What’s needed is a real alternative that is the opposite of fascism and not just fascism lite. Why vote for the fascism lite party when you can just have the real thing?
Again, the fascism lite party would rather lose to the full blown fascists than cede any power to the left. the fascism lite party needs to be fully replaced by an anti fascist one if we’re gonna play electoralism.
So your response to a popular fascist party is to… destroy the only party with enough popularity to slow it down? Bold strategy, Cotton.
Fully agreed, but maybe let’s build that before getting rid of the lite version. I’d rather fight a bear with a shotgun than a stick, but I’m not going to throw away my stick in the hope that I’ll just stumble upon a shotgun before the bear kills me. I’m swinging that stick with everything I’ve got up until the exact moment I have something better to replace it.
That’s why they lost the whole country in a landslide? Federal, state and local elections? Fucking cringe ass liberals coping and seething.
Democrats won’t let us build an alternative because they’re too busy sucking all the oxygen in the fucking room and wasting everyone’s time and energy. They need to go the way of the whigs, fucking yesterday.
They still got nearly half of the vote, they lost by less than 2%. The real landslide losers were literally every other party.
I didn’t realize we needed their permission.
Again, absolutely minuscule waste of time and energy. The vast majority of voters literally just show up and tick a box. No one is stopping you from dedicating your time and energy to alternatives. Voters just aren’t stupid enough to throw away their bear-fighting stick just because you tell them a hypothetical shotgun would be better. Bring the shotgun and we can talk.
Are you under the impression that the Whigs just… disappeared one day and everything was fine? There were years of chaos culminating in the Civil War.
We need to get one or both of the two major parties to move to the left from their current position.
Neither seems interested.
They won’t, capitalism itself needs to be overthrown. They’re both the party of capitalism.