novameow

i still remember how her fans were very cross at the electorate for not voting as they were told. i think its great a party named after democracy does not know what it is

I don't know that for sure! Speaking for myself here—I don't know enough about the American political scene to make predictions of inevitable defeat. What's the use of predicting inevitable defeat, anyway? That's giving up, despairing, refusing even to think about the matter analytically.

Are you imagining old-fashioned rebellion in the streets, with barricades and weapons? Obviously the times have changed and rebellion needs to be sneakier. I don't know what might work yet—I don't know enough in general.

This is something I see frequently, "all we can do is either vote or armed rebellion" and like, no, there's plenty of options in between. Most of them involve getting involved in local organizations, groups, and networks. A lot of it is volunteering time, money, or stuff, if you have it. For example, you can reach out to a local chapter of Food Not Bombs.
The general thing is: you can fix anything through voting alone. It is not enough.

i am so fucking with you though on your original point

i am completely fine seeing libs getting hyped up about working within the system to turn this shit around. someone has to do it. i'm all for the fact that annoying liberals of various stripes all have a place in the greater project; people are most convinced and most easily taught by people who are a little further along than they are. who knows, those inspirational disney speeches are probably reaching someone.

but i am absolutely fucking beyond over seeing them expend their energy making shit up about what leftists mean when they point out that voting isn't working so good. just wasting away their precious irrecoverable drops of life punching left. making up a grotesque image of the most useless tankie doomer they can conjure up in their monochromatic internal apple-rotator and projecting it onto everyone who suggests that there is more work beyond what they themselves are talking about.

i don't love the feeling i get thinking about our dismantled democracy or the dismantled regulatory state or the judicial coup or or or but someone has to fucking grapple with those. that means someone has to talk about them who isn't doom spiraling, and if someone liberal enough or exhausted enough that they've run of ideas for addressing these things they should (and this is going to sound both harsh and difficult to do but it's important) shut the fuck up, or perhaps better yet stop being listened to and not encouraged.

it's the social media negativity feedback loop again tbh. the main non-individualist solution i have to this is, i guess, to address their behavior directly and at a high level and telling them to cut it out, or just not engaging; whatever works. actually, i gotta say ventily thinking through this has kinda shed some light on it for me.