We desperately need class consciousness in the U.S.
Class consciousness is not telling people to vote for the blue or red ruling class parties.
It is educating people that both parties serve the billionaire class, which is why workers need to build our own power to fight back.
People would rather cling to the fairy tale that one party is a hero and the other is a villain than accept the fact that we live in a nightmare where both parties are villains who turned our government into a money-laundering syndicate for billionaires, corporations, and Israel.
After exposing the US’s war crimes and Israel’s genocide at Coachella the lead singer of The Strokes, Julian Casablancas, isn’t done speaking truth to power:
“American Zionists get the benefits of white privilege, but act like they are Black people during slavery. You are not oppressed. You are going to a wedding in Tel-Aviv when there are 80,000 dead Palestinians half a mile away.”
as Norman Finkelstein said, Israel is a lunatic state, and Zionists are crazed genocidal freaks with an insatiable bloodlust. They occupy, annex, attack, bomb and massacre in Lebanon, Gaza, the West Bank, Yemen, Syria, Iraq, Iran, and have to be stopped by any means necessary
"I voted for Trump for the economy"
Economy goes down
"I voted for Trump so he ends wars"
No wars end, new ones break out
"I voted for Trump because he cares about free speech"
Trump attacks free speech immediately
"I voted for Trump because politicians are corrupt"
Trump goes on the biggest corruption spree we've ever seen
"I voted for Trump because he's pro crypto"
Trump launches multiple crypto scams day 1 of his presidency
"I voted Trump because his opponents are pedos"
Elon, one of Trumps closest partners calls Trump a pedophile
one of the few benefits of Musk giving me the blue-check without having asked for it is that I can post long videos, so here's the full Louis Theroux documentary on the genocidal Zionist Israeli settlers and their pathological death-cult mania:
Palestinians are digging with their hands in the dark to find their loved ones after Israel’s latest massacre.
Israel is burying people alive with US weapons, while Biden and Harris officials say they’re doing everything they can to stop it…Unbelievable
To say that Hamas killed 1,200 Israelis on Oct 7 is a Big Lie.
Israel’s own military (IDF) used helicopters to kill Israelis, foreigners & Hamas alike.
This is the “Hannibal Directive.”
Example: The cars 👇🏽 at the music festival were not destroyed by men with guns. Obviously.
🚨BREAKING🚨
Israel has admitted 28 Apache helicopters discharged their ammunition and had to be reloaded on 0ct 7
Leaked footage proves the IDF took out its own citizens with Apache Helicopters at the Nøva music festival
I feel like I should reiterate my position that you're not actually punishing the Democrats by refusing to vote for them in November. They don't care if you don't vote for them. They don't care if they lose. Their political careers will be fine either way.
It's entirely fine and legitimate to not vote for Democrats, but don't let that act dupe you into thinking your vote matters. It doesn't matter how you vote, and it doesn't matter how you don't vote. The US power structure is set up to be completely unaffected by voters. Acting like you could teach the Democrats a lesson by refusing to vote for them only feeds into the illusion that voting matters inside a power structure that has been deemed too important to be left to the hands of the voters.
There's a viral tweet from Glenn Greenwald going around that says "The US has no functional president and has not had one for months, and it's barely noticeable and barely matters because there's a permanent unelected machine that runs the government."
Greenwald is correct. Nobody with any real power cares all that much who the president is. The president doesn't even need to have a functioning brain. This whole show is being run by people who don't ultimately care all that much whether Democrats or Republicans are in office, including the party leadership of the Democrats and the Republicans.
You think Democrats have enjoyed playing the face of the evil empire these last few years? You think they've enjoyed having their political rallies interrupted by anti-genocide protesters and having their feel-good progressive image completely discredited in front of everyone? They'd all be having a lot more fun if the terrible things being perpetrated by the Biden administration were being done by Trump instead, so they could go back to playing the good guys.
They're happy to lose, which is why they're acting like they're happy to lose. They're doing absolutely nothing to appeal to progressives or energize their base. They're not articulating any real policies besides more of the same. They're not changing anything about any of the things that make normal people hate Democrats in the year 2024, and if they lose again in November they will continue to not change anything.
Americans don't live in the kind of country where votes matter. I'm sorry, but that's just the way it is. Vote or don't vote however you want, but don't make the mistake of believing you'll be teaching the Democrats any kind of lesson that they will actually learn by doing so.
If real change comes to the United States, it won't be because of how any Americans chose to vote or not vote in any of their fake elections. There are no solutions to these problems in electoral politics.