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13361687, Then what?
Posted by Walleye, Fri Jan-10-20 11:09 AM
As an exercise, don't be a pundit. Just ask yourself who wants to accomplish by politics a world that you want to live in, and then consider voting for that person? You got student loans? Any medical debt? Family or friends in the military that you don't want put in harm's way?

Obviously, you don't need to answer those questions (or any other pressing material question about your own life) here, publicly. But there are already plenty of people who are paid to predict how these things are going to turn out, but it's not entirely clear that:

a)they're doing it to educate us, so much as entertain us
b)they're really any good at it

"Electability" doesn't have to be a category that's bestowed by remote dorks. If you want something, and think a candidate wants to give you that thing, decide to vote for him or her and that person has suddenly become (ever so slightly) more electable. Then tell your family and friends, and they're that much more electable.

Just look at the broad strikes occurring in France and India as regular people deciding, beyond the narrow confines of the ballot box, to take positive steps toward depriving capital of its power. The idea that our only political power is in voting was already a detestable lie. But if we permit even that feeble power to be further narrowed by a brow-furrowing, chin-stroking class of officially sanctioned serious people, then we're all enormous fucking suckers who deserve* whichever fascist succeeds President Biden. Think Trump is bad? Imagine his mask-off fascist cruelty with a subtle and competent administrator like Josh Hawley or Tom Cotton. Think they're not capable of harnessing the raw energy of the squealing racist pigs that pad Trump's base? Then imagine President Tucker Carlson.

*to be clear, we don't deserve it. but we're the ones who are going to pay for it.