Mia McKenzie

Follow me on Insta @miamckenzie00 Award-Winning Author of SKYE FALLING ( Reps: Alexa Stark at Writers House / Eric Reid at WME

[Mia McKenzie @miamckenzie]

@cheo_coker Yeah. Congressional districts aren't state-wide races, so I don't know how much you can compare. BUT something does feel very off. The number off is just so big.

[edie @rusticfem]

Can I say something controversial? I don't think this is the whole picture. I think many Americans don't realize how readily white women in non-liberal areas (so, most of the country) accept subjugation.

[IT WAS NEVER GOING TO BE ME @solomonmissouri]

People of the Diaspora ... do not lose your jobs today

[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.

[Bassey @Basseyworld]

“We told you so”…. TOLD US WHAT??? You think people who voted FOR Trump were just too progressive and were waiting for Democrats to be more left? Well, since she won’t be as left as I want then I’m just going to vote for the greater of two evils.
Shut the fuck up.

[Organizermemes @OrganizerMemes]

There is no state where 3rd party votes came close to the margin we needed. We lost to right wing voters and center voters who broke right

[Ball Robeson @DetroitJerel_]

White people, en masse, will do anything to protect whiteness.
Men, en masse, will do anything to protect patriarchy.
Non Black people of color, en masse, will do anything to align themselves with whiteness.

[Mia McKenzie @miamckenzie]

@rar_g Lmao

[Mia McKenzie @miamckenzie]

@RaquelWillis_ Lol

[Mia McKenzie @miamckenzie]

2008

[RYLIC ZANDER @1Rylic]

I’m goin to the store. Y’all want anything?

[Mia McKenzie @miamckenzie]

Where are queer Black people supposed to go, though? I'm really asking.

[Mia McKenzie @miamckenzie]

I strongly dislike how the media does election night like it's sports, using terms like "pulling ahead" and all that. Wait until the polls close and enough votes are counted and then say who won that state. Less "exciting" but a truer representation of what's actually happening.

[Mia McKenzie @miamckenzie]

@TananariveDue Good call.

[Mia McKenzie @miamckenzie]

I feel like the rules of CMVE (Cookie Monster Vernacular English) are not being followed consistently here? It's giving Big Bird pretending to be Cookie Monster. What's that about?

[Cookie Monster @MeCookieMonster]

It's okay to take a break today—it even better if it includes cookies. 💙

[Mia McKenzie @miamckenzie]

But get those clicks and ratings, I guess. Ugh.

[Mia McKenzie @miamckenzie]

I strongly dislike how the media does election night like it's sports, using terms like "pulling ahead" and all that. Wait until the polls close and enough votes are counted and then say who won that state. Less "exciting" but a truer representation of what's actually happening.

[Mia McKenzie @miamckenzie]

Even if, say, a big storm hit mid-election-day and people who were planning to vote stayed home, waiting until the polls close and enough votes are counted before throwing up percentages would still better represent what actually happened.