"It is not Trump—just as it was not Biden or Harris—who decides what the Palestinians can or cannot do," Abandon Harris' Hudhayfah Ahmad told Newsweek.
That blame is ongoing. But it wasn’t going to change anything in the fall off 2024. The train already left the station. Given that, when trump was one of the tracks, the only sane option was to avoid it. All other logic is secondary after that.
That’s the problem with treating an election like a moral dilemma, this perspective forces you to take the party itself for granted.
You sat and watched as the Democrats set up a Trolley Problem, but you’re blaming the people they put at the switch rather than they who tied us to the tracks in the first place.
You can’t dismantle the DNC and put forward a replacement leading candidate in the fall of an election year.
The discussion on “hold your nose and vote for Harris, to keep trump out” has an unsaid (but often completely said) primer clause of “the DNC is shit and must change, it’s a priority of 2025 and beyond.”
I haven’t seen one Harris voter claiming they were stoked about her or the DNC.
Trump IS a moral dilemma, and given one vote, and no time to change things, the only option is to reduce harm. THEN build a better future.
You can’t dismantle the DNC and put forward a replacement leading candidate in the fall of an election year.
Of course you can. Only the USA has a 2-year election season, every other developed country on the planet does their elections in a matter of weeks.
The discussion on “hold your nose and vote for Harris, to keep trump out” has an unsaid (but often completely said) primer clause of “the DNC is shit and must change, it’s a priority of 2025 and beyond.”
I haven’t seen one Harris voter claiming they were stoked about her or the DNC.
Sounds to me like you should be begging forgiveness from the voters for holding their nose and making the election as close as it was.
Trump IS a moral dilemma
Trump is a consequence of the Democrats’ failure to live up to their own name. Bernie would have won in 2016 if the party leadership didn’t deliberately shut him out to run “She whose turn it was”.
, and given one vote, and no time to change things, the only option is to reduce harm. THEN build a better future.
Cool. So, now that we’re past that point, can we please stop playing the blame game and focus our attention on the “building a better future” part?
A thread like this isn’t the space for future building. This is a thread on the discussion of an election. So no surprise the conversation is focused on that.
There no possible way to do as you said, in fall 2024. Edit or any other fall during 2 party, fptp where the leading candidates are already selected.
Of course other countries do it differently. It’s great. But changing the whole electoral process between September and November is a joke.
Edit edit and now instead of working on grassroots candidates or platform change, this nose holding Harris voter is instead spending my community time exclusively looking after the at risk people in my network, rather than working on horizon goals. Trump and co have contracted the threat window so massively the goals have changed.
That is a very difficult argument to make convincingly when we just had an election where the incumbent was forced off the ballot mere weeks from election day and their replacement might have won if she’d been allowed to be a “hope and change” candidate instead of promising to preserve her predecessor’s status quo.
That blame is ongoing. But it wasn’t going to change anything in the fall off 2024. The train already left the station. Given that, when trump was one of the tracks, the only sane option was to avoid it. All other logic is secondary after that.
That’s the problem with treating an election like a moral dilemma, this perspective forces you to take the party itself for granted.
You sat and watched as the Democrats set up a Trolley Problem, but you’re blaming the people they put at the switch rather than they who tied us to the tracks in the first place.
You can’t dismantle the DNC and put forward a replacement leading candidate in the fall of an election year.
The discussion on “hold your nose and vote for Harris, to keep trump out” has an unsaid (but often completely said) primer clause of “the DNC is shit and must change, it’s a priority of 2025 and beyond.”
I haven’t seen one Harris voter claiming they were stoked about her or the DNC.
Trump IS a moral dilemma, and given one vote, and no time to change things, the only option is to reduce harm. THEN build a better future.
Of course you can. Only the USA has a 2-year election season, every other developed country on the planet does their elections in a matter of weeks.
Sounds to me like you should be begging forgiveness from the voters for holding their nose and making the election as close as it was.
Trump is a consequence of the Democrats’ failure to live up to their own name. Bernie would have won in 2016 if the party leadership didn’t deliberately shut him out to run “She whose turn it was”.
Cool. So, now that we’re past that point, can we please stop playing the blame game and focus our attention on the “building a better future” part?
A thread like this isn’t the space for future building. This is a thread on the discussion of an election. So no surprise the conversation is focused on that.
There no possible way to do as you said, in fall 2024. Edit or any other fall during 2 party, fptp where the leading candidates are already selected.
Of course other countries do it differently. It’s great. But changing the whole electoral process between September and November is a joke.
Edit edit and now instead of working on grassroots candidates or platform change, this nose holding Harris voter is instead spending my community time exclusively looking after the at risk people in my network, rather than working on horizon goals. Trump and co have contracted the threat window so massively the goals have changed.
That is a very difficult argument to make convincingly when we just had an election where the incumbent was forced off the ballot mere weeks from election day and their replacement might have won if she’d been allowed to be a “hope and change” candidate instead of promising to preserve her predecessor’s status quo.
I acknowledge what you’re saying, and acknowledge I’m pretty myopically focused on the abject evil that is trump.