Stuart Thomson

In this house, we obey the laws if thermodynamics 🇵🇸 (he/him)

[Ilhan Omar @IlhanMN]

Abolish ICE.

There’s no reforming it.

There’s no compromise.

There’s only one way to rein in ICE’s terror campaign. Abolish it.

[Stuart Thomson @Four_Four_Stu]

@90MinuteCynic https://t.co/Y2kP341Vqw

[Stuart Thomson @Four_Four_Stu]

@hamishcarton

[Connecticut DSA 🌹🐳 @ConnecticutDSA]

Maurine Crouch, Democratic Socialist for Hamden Legislative Council, WINS DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY ELECTION! 🌹🎉

Filling the seat left empty by our comrade Laurie Sweet’s election to the state legislature — Maurine will fight for safety, community, and solidarity!

[Abdul-Razak Osmanu @a_osmanuct]

We’re live & outside pollstanding for my future @ConnecticutDSA endorsed Legislative Council colleague Maurine!! #CrouchingforCrouch

[Kate Willett @katewillett]

So tonight is the night the Democratic Socialists of America defeated 20 million dollars and a dynasty. Join DSA

[Taylor Lorenz @TaylorLorenz]

Let’s see if the NY Post actually includes my statement this time!

[Connecticut DSA 🌹🐳 @ConnecticutDSA]

Hear from CT DSA Labor Chair Ruby C, speaking at today’s May Day Rally on the New Haven Green!

This movement of the working class is prepared for militant strike action in 2028 to win the future we deserve.

“UNITED WE STAND, TOGETHER WE WIN!”

[Connecticut DSA 🌹🐳 @ConnecticutDSA]

Sign on to the resolution here: https://t.co/a2IJthVgDv

[Lucy Dacus @lucydacus]

if trans people wanna comment surgery gofundmes, I’m gonna give away 10k in $500 increments until it’s gone, & if other people wanna scroll through and make donations, please do

the government will never be the source of our validation or protection, we have to do it ourselves

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

Free Palestine.

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

All the takes are correct and yet they also miss the point.

Yes, it was insane for the Democrats to think they could win by running a soulless candidate, without a shred of progressive policy vision, pursuing endorsements from neocon war-hawks everybody hates, while arming and funding a genocide, and belittling and crushing those who have enough morality to protest it.  It is enraging that the Democrats are so smug and blind to this.

But these are all just symptoms.  The deeper reality is that liberalism has failed, liberalism is dead, and people urgently need to wake up to this fact and respond accordingly. It is a defunct ideology that cannot offer any meaningful solutions to our social and ecological crises and it must be abandoned.

Democrats have proven over and over again that they cannot accept even *basic* steps like public healthcare, affordable housing, and a public job guarantee - things that would dramatically improve the material, social and political conditions of the working classes. And they cannot accept a public finance strategy that would steer production away from fossil fuels and toward green transition to give us a shot at a liveable future.

Why? Because these things run against the objectives of capital accumulation. And for liberals capital is sacrosanct. They will do whatever it takes to ensure elite accumulation, it is their only consistent commitment.  At home, they suppress and demonize progressive and socialist tendencies. Abroad, they engage in endless wars and violence to suppress input prices in the global South and prevent any possibility of sovereign economic development.

The Democrats have done all this purposefully and knowingly, for my whole life, not as some kind of "mistake" but in full consciousness that it is in the interests of capital.

And because liberalism cannot address our crises, and because it crushes socialist alternatives, it inevitably paves the way for right-wing populism.  They know this pattern, and yet they risk it every time - this election being only the most recent example. They did it in 2016, when they actively crushed the Sanders campaign and sent Trump to the White House. They do it because ultimately they (and I mean the liberal ruling class here) don't really mind if fascists take power, so long as the latter too ensure the conditions for capital accumulation. They 100% prefer this to the possibility of a socialist alternative.

So, progressives have to face reality. The dream of "converting" the Democratic party is dead. This is now a fact and it must be accepted. The only option is to build a mass-based movement that can reclaim the working classes and mobilize a political vehicle that can integrate disparate progressive struggles into a unified and formidable political force and achieve substantive transformation. This will take real work, actual organizing, but it must be done and that process must begin now.

[Shadi Hamid @shadihamid]

It's time for us to just be honest. This version of the Democratic Party is arrogant and patronizing, taking minority voters for granted and treating them like children. Well, maybe minority voters aren't into that.

[Mark Ames @MarkAmesExiled]

The Democratic Party establishment will learn nothing, no one will pay. They’re as corrupt as they are vengeful, they’ll cling to their lucrative Dem Party sinecures like pitbulls clamped on a baby’s neck. If 2016 is any indicator, they’ll unleash vengeance to blot out the shame.

[Matt Lech @MattLech]

Idk what's happening but if Harris loses its because once again democrats intentionally demobilized their base in favor of flattering corporate and genocidal power brokers.

[James🔻 @GoodVibePolitik]

The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) released a statement calling for the boycott of both the Republican and Democratic parties this election as they both reflect an “explicit endorsement” of ethnic cleansing and legitimize Zionist crimes against Palestinians.

[Tired Peasant @HorrorGorl]

If you voted for Jill Stein or Claudia de la Cruz or you didn’t vote at all… you’re on the right side of history. Be proud !! You didn’t vote for genocide 🇵🇸

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

I couldn't care less who you vote for but if you're voting for Kamala Harris or Donald Trump while telling yourself they're not an evil monster who'll need to be ferociously opposed once in office then I low key think you're a piece of shit.

[Greta Thunberg @GretaThunberg]

#UsaElection #USA2024 #StopArmingIsrael #FreePalestine #ClimateJusticeNow