Someone I follow on tumblr reblogged a post chastising leftists for not participating in local elections and seeing it has filled me with a deeply intense anger that I am now forced to stew in.
like that is obnoxious and frustrating regardless of when you say it but it is beyond that in the current moment. Being like "most of the demands of people who say they want a revolution can be achieved via voting in local elections" as the us government aids a genocide is beyond the fucking pale
"most of the demands of people who say they want a revolution can be achieved via voting in local elections"
Can it?? Can it really??
Cause a significant chunk of the population of Seattle went to open battle with the SPD and demanded police abolition with reducing police funding as the transitional demand and every single city council candidate has been campaigning since on increasing police funding! And reducing police funding is not a remotely revolutionary demand! We can't even get "stop spending all of the city's money on white supremacist murderers" through electoral politics! I am going to throttle these people!


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