Really exhausted of the general refrain that our two party system has enabled. “Lesser evilism” is still an evil that’s only being enacted outside our purview, in a sense, willingly sacrificing others for a chance at survival rather than a collective understanding of how our suffering is connected. It’s really frustrating to hear “This is the only choice we have” when that same level of organization that happens for voting can be reapplied to different contexts, especially when people can be energized at the threat of their material reality. Kamala winning is indeed, a slow death. Trump winning is just the same death. And that’s just for Americans. Being in the Congo, or Sudan, or Palestine, this election just changes who’s in front of the levers exterminating them. We can’t accept this two party system anymore. As you said, we live in a oligarchy.
When will we do more than cosign the neoliberal half of the two party system? Kamala feels like Biden all over again. Thanks for bringing some nuance to the discussion...electoralism is a depressing treadmill. As an anarchist every election cycle just feels like groundhog day
People tend to go to sleep after voting, rather than go harder and put even more pressure on politicians to get anything positive done. They should be afraid of their voting base, but they trained the electorate to love their representative rather than constantly demanding receipts.
I would say we need to stop focusing on the 4 year election cycle. I choose to vote for harm reduction every four years, then I do the hard work of community organizing the rest of the time. My only pushback to your comment is that it ignores the thousands of people who are doing exactly what you want folks to be doing. My question is why do people comment on the presidential candidates, but do not point out and uplift the people who are doing the day-to-day organizing?
Of course no party can save us… but as a nonbinary queer person with a uterus I am facing loosing my right to my own body and my right to exist as a queer person. My own father thinks I should be in a conversion camp and then jail if I don’t become straight. I am originally from Alabama. The way they think about someone like me down there is bone chilling terrifying.
Many of us are not voting FOR Harris, we are voting against Trump. No optimism in this at all and ain’t no one saving my Black ass in this political insane asylum but me. Love your commentary.
Yes . And I totally understand. I think with we're all honest now about why Harris is more... Comforting for ppl, then we can talk about how we plan to organize against the state, repression regardless
Leave it to you to put words to that sick feeling I had after the latest announcement. I share your videos with my young daughters and have learned so much. Thank you🙏🏾🖤
i wish i had a mom like you, that's wonderful & so loving of you to be aware & mindful of these things. staying up to date & learning about these systems that harm us is so important, passing these things onto children is vital. you're doing amazing. even if i can never have a loving mother, it gives me hope & warms my heart to see comments like yours that give a peek into the lives of others who are thoughtful & caring of their children. thank you for all you do. being a loving parent is part of saving & healing our world. 🧡
personally, i think we as local organizers should spend about a day on each federal election and invest more in local elections. but never as much as we spend on direct action. build housing co-ops, worker co-ops, protest with intention, and build strong communities that are self "policing." take as much power back for the people in your community as you can. on a larger level, i think we should use worker co-ops and housing co-ops to support the general strike efforts coming in 2028. those are some of the tools that can be used to dismantle the house
I'd argue one has a duty to vote for the lesser of two evils, just don't get complancent or stop advocating for the bigger changes that you really care about afterwards.
I think a lot of "don't vote/vote 3rd party" rhetoric comes from people who either aren't politically active outside of elections, or who are thinking from a place of privilege at the expense of the people who are more affected by politics. (Not that that it's what this video is, this was thoughtful.) But I'm an active socialist (not just on RUclips), Black, queer, trans, disabled, and an atheist. My career brings me close to immigrant communities as well. I fought under Trump and i fought under Biden. I supported my communities under both admins. The difference is stark.
thank you for sharing this necessary take on the latest developments. while i am energized and inspired by the possibility of a black woman winning the election, my previous doubts about the state of our so called "democracy" that were looming when trying to process the shitty choice i'd be forced to make between biden & trump still abide, although more quietly than before. the questions and considerations you raised resonated with those doubts in the back of my mind and got me asking why we are so satisfied with scraps. the more i think about it the more i am convinced that we have been starved of the agency to determine our collective destiny in favor of this parasocial oligarchy that has been forced upon us. i'm challenging myself to think about how to effectively oppose the soft fascism we've grown accustomed to microdosing and normalizing now. so grateful for your voice and your light!
Exactly I’m tired of PoC coming out of the woodworks to bash Harris at a time like this. No one likes her or thinks she will save us, but what we not gone do is piss away votes on third parties or by not voting at all
@@adoniswells723 THIS part! People forget the last time they were under that violent regime and tried to protest and that man tear gassed protestors for a photo op to take a picture with an upside down Bible and how he openly was in bed with dictators and ADMIRES them. You can't reason with him, but at least Kamala and her team would try and listen to you in some capacity and negotiate.
This. She’ll stop #Project2025 for the time being and that’s what all of us who aren’t heterosexual white males who lean right need at the moment. Trump, Vance, & Kevin Roberts aren’t playing around. They want to subjugate us.
What happened to never letting Trump be in office again?? Yes it's a shit system and I'm tired of it too, but not voting isn't going to do shit but let Trump win and enact project 2025.
I’m so glad to see this video. I feel like I’m going completely insane seeing people with ACAB in their bios actively rooting for Kamala. Like, obviously I don’t want Trump either, but the system is broken. We need better options.
We have to take better options even though we're told not to. No centrist is ever going to give us permission to disobey their order to vote for their favourite war criminal.
Always a huge heartfelt THANK-YOU for sharing as you do, in the way you do. I experience a sense of optimism, peace, and yearning to explore and investigate more of life from listening to you. You emanate so much compassion, brilliance, humor, accountability, and adventure. In deep appreciation for your choosing to be a truly and sincerely benevolent being.
Excellent analysis. I agree with you for sure. I am still voting Harris/Walz. Gotta get rid of Trump no matter what. Ultimately electoral politics isn't going to fix capitalism at all. Social movements are required, keeping Trump as far away from the White House is a good goal though.
Awesome video. Feels really gratifying to hear you say this and echo other abolitionist ideas when I have been arguing with multiple friends about how voting third party isn’t throwing your vote away, but rather a rejection of the oligarchal, two-party system that has plagued this country with bigotry and capitalism since its foundation.
The way people are supporting her unconditionally. As if it would be easier to push her after the election than before. The time to make demand is now. At least make your vote conditional. Demand ceasefire or any good policy in exchange.
amazing video tysm and okay i've been thinking the same thing too about what happened in pennsylvania...it just seems too perfect lol. i think something giving me hope is im seeing more people in my personal life realize the importance of investing in community and helping others around you. at the end of the day we're the only ones who can keep each other safe.
I'm not here to lecture anybody about how they should feel about our political system or the options we have presented before us. It's hardly required to be enthusiastic about a candidate, ever. But to anyone thinking of not voting, or voting for a third party? Research #Project2025. This is a battle between a democratic candidate--however mediocre--and absolute ruin. If you read about Project 2025, you will have a hard time not understanding the stakes.
I love you. You are my brother. But abstaining from voting only helps the cause of fascism. Voting is literally the least any American can do. Vote blue and then get busy doing the real work.
Liberalism naturally veers towards fascism because of a misguided adherence to respectability politics, allowing hate speech to thrive and economic exploitation. Just look at how all the Dems reacted following Trump assassination attempt, sending all their thoughts and prayers. They'd do the same thing if this were 1930s Germany and Hitler got shot. Voting blue is just delaying the inevitable b/c libs will either willing give up the reins of power should they fear for their private property and for the sake of "law and order," or they will allow fascists to be voted into office, just as Hitler was voted in. The fear mongering about "saving democracy" this cycle is comical, given the fact there's only ever been a democracy for the rich and a dictatorship for the rest of us. Just because we vote doesn't mean it's a democracy when it's billionaires that choose the candidates. If we're a democracy so is Russia and Iran.
I lost faith in the democratic party after learning about Obama's straight-up war crimes, followed by Biden getting to be the party nominee in 2020. Unfortunately, the top priority has to be preventing Trump's reelection. Donald Trump, with presidential immunity and a partisan supreme court, would spend 4 years reversing as many civic and environmental protections as possible.
I'm for prison abolition, but I think focusing on that before the most consequential election in history isn't instilling me with confidence. She wasn't my first choice, but she's the choice we have. And given our other option, it would be easier to have our grievances met with her or any Democrat in the White House than with Trump and the Right's "Project 2025"
@PrinceShakurRUclips when you figure out a definition that doesn't put the most vulnerable at risk for the sake of revolution let me know because I can't think of one.
@@cookie8162 The most vulnerable are always at risk. Under Democrats or Republicans. It's not like Republicans haven't been plenty successful stripping away rights under Democrats, cops aren't murdering and r*ping people under Democrats, people aren't dying and being enslaved in prisons, innocents being mass murdered overseas, hate violence towards LGBTQ haven't risen under Democrats, homelessness isn't exploding everywhere and being criminalized harshly under Dems, ect. It's not a question of protecting the most vulnerable here, voting for Dems doesn't do that, it's having some standards in place. Lines that can't be crossed, and if they are, organizing from the bottom up and forcing out entrenched governments becomes the only real answer.
@@PrinceShakurRUclipsWhy can't we focus on revolution against Kamala? I did the footwork under Trump and under Biden. It was hell both times but Trump was worse. Kamalla isn't my messiah but neither is acting like she would be equally as bad as Trump. She won't. And I would rather fight a Black woman and queer ally before an outspoken misogynist and racist who leans into fascism overtly.
Not at all. This is not "what we're left with" at all. This isnt the way it has to be. Its the way that it IS tho because its been left to those who vote. Do you have any idea how far left the Overton window would shift if leftists actually voted? We are left with a system that you can get involved with TODAY. That you can join TODAY. That you can run for office TODAY. That you can win a seat TODAY. Many people who have never involved themselves in things love talking about those things. Especially content creators.. please be wary of those individuals. It takes nothing to throw rocks at something you do not understand. Good luck, everyone. #vote
I’m voting RFK for this exact reason. The two party system needs to end and even if he doesn’t win, I want an independent to get record numbers so people stop parroting the “wasted vote” line.
Under kamala, are we to act surprised when every major city has a cop city at its hub, people are still working 3 jobs to survive, and civil rights continue to be stripped away? At the end of the day the 2 choices are fascism or fascism, i feel like this word gets thrown around a lot but many people forget that it’s already here
I'm a bit tired of that expression "master's tool won't dismantle the master's house", a tool is a tool, and my ancestors literally used the masters tools against them to free themselves during the Haitian revolution (and got f-- ed since then but that's a different discussion). I know the expression is there to bring about attention on different modes of thinking, but the way I see it used mostly is to promote non-participative complacency rather than actual concrete resistance. I say, use any tool you can find to resist and sabotage the system even your own shoes (which is by the way where the word sabotage comes from "shoe"). No good deed is too small.
not to say that liberation can’t/won’t be achieved in our lifetime, but i would rather elect the candidate who WON’T implement fascism + completely ruin that possibility (complete liberation) for future generations. i am thinking outside of myself this election, the future deserves it.
@@PrinceShakurRUclips Community. It has always been by not ignoring the people around you. Facism exists when people look to a leader to absolve their problems because they don’t have an established connection with themselves and their community and so they seek identity and belonging through essentially a cult of propaganda. It makes you look annoying at first, lord knows I am but when you understand how populist thought works, you can understand how to work with others to move it the right way.
@PrinceShakurRUclips I get where you're coming from. Democrats are at fault for allowing Trump to win in 2016 in the first place due to their own hubris and their tendency to keep the status quo instead of strive for progress. That being said, "confronting fascism" is a non-starter if Trump and his theocratic cronies get elected. This election is about protecting democracy against fascism. The only way we can hope to shift the overton window further left is by first demonstrating that fascism is unacceptable to Americans by VOTING AGAINST IT. There is no good argument against abstaining from voting blue at this particular moment in time if you genuinely care about protecting people's freedom, democracy and marginalized people's rights. I would share in more of your cynicism if Republicans weren't being so mask off in their rhetoric. Democrats will at least respect your right to oppose their views and they have been shown to adopt more progressive policies in some areas
@@PrinceShakurRUclips organization OUTSIDE of election year, more cohesive coalition within/about our communities. there’s no one correct answer. i just feel that this is all a gradual process that won’t happen overnight + that harris is the most viable candidate in this moment.
I agree with most of what you say here, and I appreciate it because the excitment for getting a top cop as head of the exec is really annoying. Also, we have to do things beyond electoralism 100% all day! That said, and I'm not saying you advocated this, I just feel this needs to be brought up because I see too many leftists bring 3rd parties up uncritically: all the nationally recognized or widespread 3rd party Presidential candidates here in the US are corporate backed, too. Whether it's Jill Stein, or that weirdo in 2016 who tried to say that the sun exploding in 7 billion years made the very real threat of climate change irrelavent, or lest we forget the horrible run of Cornel West who's been hanging around with literal white supremacists(!), these people and these parties are also, not your friends. They're grifters taking their cut from more niche corners of US politics. Instead, I'd advocate for the building of new local third parties like Fannie Lou Hammer and so many others did back in the day because Dems were bound and determined to uphold the status quo whenever and wherever possible. Then, make your nation-wide coalitions and mergings into stronger 3rd parties. But... just to reitterate... that's still working *within* the system which can't be the only path to "better futures". Thanks again for the vid!
I agree with most of your critiques of the national parties and the anti-democratic measures they use to maintain power and their desire to perpetuate America's oligarchy. What I cannot abide is the inference that voting on the national level does not matter. I believe it matters on the margins. For instance, Biden's support of UAW and his nominees for the NLRB led to substantive, material gains for people. When you talk about grassroot efforts to fundamentally change local politics, I believe unions will be a part of those movements. If that happens, Biden's policies will be directly responsible. His prescription drug plan directly helped my family (and thousands of others) as did his student loan forgiveness plan. Lastly, I do not know anyone who thinks voting blue will save us - at least among the working class folks I know. The people that I know who will vote for Harris are engaging in harm reduction voting. These same people engage in local grassroots organizing because they, too, know that that's the only strategy that will save us. We can engage in harm reduction voting to give us the emotional space and time to do the necessary grassroots organizing. It is not an either/or; we can do both.
The media was too busy focusing on Biden being old and giving that attention, rather than focusing on the progressive things Biden did. Biden is more progressive than I thought he would be.
@@lovestarlightgiver2402 it wasn't his age it was his mental faculties. he could've been 20 years younger with the same symptoms and the narratives would be the same, or he could have been five years older and still sharp and we'd focus on something else. and no amount of progressive measures excuse genocide.
@@lovestarlightgiver2402 I could not agree more. In his first two years, he passed som truly impactful legislation. He will also leaves behind a rich legacy of judges that will absolutely make a difference in the future. With all that said, I will still be out here engaging in community organizing because I know that's where we can really impact people's lives.
I agree that Kamala or any politician for that matter is not going to fix all the deep seated issues in our country, they will make mistakes of their own. But don't you think it would be easier to fight fascism and other issues under a democrat vs a brazen fascist republican like Trump? Also don't you think preserving LGBT rights is worth it? Because under Trump we are back to square 1.
Obama took it back to square 1 as well, running on Roe, then saying 'not a priority' (Cuz it's the perfect fundraiser carrot year after year) It's easier to fight Red and Blue fascism (corporatism) by divesting from duopoly thinking. Direct action is where it's at. (See college students with real morals protesting genocide).
Who's the Vice President right now? How're things going for us queer folks right now? And where is the democracy when it comes to Kamala and any politician for that matter actively murdering hundreds of thousands of people in Palestine and countless others across the world?
liberals go to brunch when there's a D in office, in fact they were not nearly as incensed against bush as they were/are for trump. I think it might be easier to fight fascism when an extra 30 million people recognize that there IS fascism instead of making excuses for it like they have been doing these last few years.
@@PrinceShakurRUclips Yesss. Definitely not the best thing. Now, here’s where you tell us how you are getting the electorate population and making them leftists. I mean we aren’t dealing with agents of the state here. I hate when leftists talk about unity and working together but they just totally disconnect from the population around them and the community they are in. Half the voting population in this country are voting for Trump. And this is where you think we should be most concerned?
There is very little difference between the two American parties... (see the famous Gore Vidal quote)... Kamala Harris is, I guess, better than Trump, but it's still just business (& capitalism) as usual.
@@PrinceShakurRUclips “voting doesnt matter” at scale is what gets you trump. Your take is wildly myopic and puts people (like myself nonbinary/trans) in real harm because you’re on a high horse about “both parties are bad so lets fight facism”. Instead it should be Vote blue then do the work to make things better. To say anything else rn is reckless at best and completely delusional at worst. Everything sucks. Get to the work with context we’re handed. This whole idea that not voting for dems somehow is doing POC any favors is wildly stupid in a way I can’t actually wrap my mind around. While we’re over here fighting trump and gop is collecting wins. Nothing is perfect. But that doesnt mean you sit shit out or “fight facism”. Right now you vote to save us from an agenda that will end you me and anyone who looks like us a hell of lot quicker than anything dems will do asap. I like your videos but this take feels widly off.
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"Those who choose the lesser evil forget quickly that they chose evil."
Yesssss
Except one evil won't raise taxes on the poor ad lower taxes for the rich. Vote on policy and not people.
Really exhausted of the general refrain that our two party system has enabled. “Lesser evilism” is still an evil that’s only being enacted outside our purview, in a sense, willingly sacrificing others for a chance at survival rather than a collective understanding of how our suffering is connected. It’s really frustrating to hear “This is the only choice we have” when that same level of organization that happens for voting can be reapplied to different contexts, especially when people can be energized at the threat of their material reality. Kamala winning is indeed, a slow death. Trump winning is just the same death. And that’s just for Americans. Being in the Congo, or Sudan, or Palestine, this election just changes who’s in front of the levers exterminating them. We can’t accept this two party system anymore. As you said, we live in a oligarchy.
❤ thank you
We are stuck in an abusive relationship with our electoral system. Don't nobody wanna leave this shit???
Outline a realistic plan to leave and someone will surely follow
Not for fascism
2 things. 1 I'm too broke to leave. 2 go where? Neoliberal bullshit damn near everywhere. Just find the same shit in a different place.
When will we do more than cosign the neoliberal half of the two party system? Kamala feels like Biden all over again. Thanks for bringing some nuance to the discussion...electoralism is a depressing treadmill. As an anarchist every election cycle just feels like groundhog day
Exactly. 🏴🖤✊🏽
yes yes yes. thank you for your thoughts. every presidential election is like this
People tend to go to sleep after voting, rather than go harder and put even more pressure on politicians to get anything positive done. They should be afraid of their voting base, but they trained the electorate to love their representative rather than constantly demanding receipts.
I would say we need to stop focusing on the 4 year election cycle. I choose to vote for harm reduction every four years, then I do the hard work of community organizing the rest of the time. My only pushback to your comment is that it ignores the thousands of people who are doing exactly what you want folks to be doing. My question is why do people comment on the presidential candidates, but do not point out and uplift the people who are doing the day-to-day organizing?
Amen
Of course no party can save us… but as a nonbinary queer person with a uterus I am facing loosing my right to my own body and my right to exist as a queer person. My own father thinks I should be in a conversion camp and then jail if I don’t become straight. I am originally from Alabama. The way they think about someone like me down there is bone chilling terrifying.
I'm facing the same, right now, under Biden.
@@shadetreader Yes, and if Trump gets to pick anymore Supreme Court nominees it will only get worse.
Many of us are not voting FOR Harris, we are voting against Trump. No optimism in this at all and ain’t no one saving my Black ass in this political insane asylum but me.
Love your commentary.
Yes . And I totally understand. I think with we're all honest now about why Harris is more... Comforting for ppl, then we can talk about how we plan to organize against the state, repression regardless
@@PrinceShakurRUclips absolutely.
Kamala is not the only answer. The amount of people voting for Kamala could've voted for any other party as a collective
you explained it so eloquently and still so many comments totally miss the point u made. anyway great video Prince
Leave it to you to put words to that sick feeling I had after the latest announcement. I share your videos with my young daughters and have learned so much. Thank you🙏🏾🖤
i wish i had a mom like you, that's wonderful & so loving of you to be aware & mindful of these things. staying up to date & learning about these systems that harm us is so important, passing these things onto children is vital. you're doing amazing.
even if i can never have a loving mother, it gives me hope & warms my heart to see comments like yours that give a peek into the lives of others who are thoughtful & caring of their children. thank you for all you do. being a loving parent is part of saving & healing our world. 🧡
Oh that's so kind.
personally, i think we as local organizers should spend about a day on each federal election and invest more in local elections. but never as much as we spend on direct action. build housing co-ops, worker co-ops, protest with intention, and build strong communities that are self "policing." take as much power back for the people in your community as you can. on a larger level, i think we should use worker co-ops and housing co-ops to support the general strike efforts coming in 2028. those are some of the tools that can be used to dismantle the house
I'd argue one has a duty to vote for the lesser of two evils, just don't get complancent or stop advocating for the bigger changes that you really care about afterwards.
I think a lot of "don't vote/vote 3rd party" rhetoric comes from people who either aren't politically active outside of elections, or who are thinking from a place of privilege at the expense of the people who are more affected by politics. (Not that that it's what this video is, this was thoughtful.) But I'm an active socialist (not just on RUclips), Black, queer, trans, disabled, and an atheist. My career brings me close to immigrant communities as well. I fought under Trump and i fought under Biden. I supported my communities under both admins. The difference is stark.
thank you for sharing this necessary take on the latest developments. while i am energized and inspired by the possibility of a black woman winning the election, my previous doubts about the state of our so called "democracy" that were looming when trying to process the shitty choice i'd be forced to make between biden & trump still abide, although more quietly than before.
the questions and considerations you raised resonated with those doubts in the back of my mind and got me asking why we are so satisfied with scraps. the more i think about it the more i am convinced that we have been starved of the agency to determine our collective destiny in favor of this parasocial oligarchy that has been forced upon us.
i'm challenging myself to think about how to effectively oppose the soft fascism we've grown accustomed to microdosing and normalizing now. so grateful for your voice and your light!
I hate it here… I really do 🥲.
Won't save us, for sure. But I'd rather fight Copmala and her admin for my rights for 4 years over Trimp and his. Pragmatism.
Exactly I’m tired of PoC coming out of the woodworks to bash Harris at a time like this. No one likes her or thinks she will save us, but what we not gone do is piss away votes on third parties or by not voting at all
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@@adoniswells723 THIS part! People forget the last time they were under that violent regime and tried to protest and that man tear gassed protestors for a photo op to take a picture with an upside down Bible and how he openly was in bed with dictators and ADMIRES them. You can't reason with him, but at least Kamala and her team would try and listen to you in some capacity and negotiate.
Everyone who says that goes right back to brunch when Dems win. Centrists won't do sh!t to fight Copmala.
Well I ain't votin for Trump.
This. She’ll stop #Project2025 for the time being and that’s what all of us who aren’t heterosexual white males who lean right need at the moment. Trump, Vance, & Kevin Roberts aren’t playing around. They want to subjugate us.
What happened to never letting Trump be in office again?? Yes it's a shit system and I'm tired of it too, but not voting isn't going to do shit but let Trump win and enact project 2025.
So voting is the first and only way to protect ourselves? Seems like you're not a good listener
@@PrinceShakurRUclips It’s not, but it’s gonna be a hell of a lot harder to protect ourselves under Trump than under Kamala
I’m so glad to see this video. I feel like I’m going completely insane seeing people with ACAB in their bios actively rooting for Kamala. Like, obviously I don’t want Trump either, but the system is broken. We need better options.
We have to take better options even though we're told not to. No centrist is ever going to give us permission to disobey their order to vote for their favourite war criminal.
Thank you
Always a huge heartfelt THANK-YOU for sharing as you do, in the way you do. I experience a sense of optimism, peace, and yearning to explore and investigate more of life from listening to you. You emanate so much compassion, brilliance, humor, accountability, and adventure. In deep appreciation for your choosing to be a truly and sincerely benevolent being.
Excellent analysis. I agree with you for sure. I am still voting Harris/Walz. Gotta get rid of Trump no matter what. Ultimately electoral politics isn't going to fix capitalism at all. Social movements are required, keeping Trump as far away from the White House is a good goal though.
also i loved the original thumbnail but i’m sure the algorithm didn’t
Thank you for watching! I've been stoned in making different thumbnails so I always get confused about which one I like
@@PrinceShakurRUclips i would def get caught up switching them too i get it 😭
Awesome video. Feels really gratifying to hear you say this and echo other abolitionist ideas when I have been arguing with multiple friends about how voting third party isn’t throwing your vote away, but rather a rejection of the oligarchal, two-party system that has plagued this country with bigotry and capitalism since its foundation.
The way people are supporting her unconditionally. As if it would be easier to push her after the election than before. The time to make demand is now. At least make your vote conditional. Demand ceasefire or any good policy in exchange.
amazing video tysm and okay i've been thinking the same thing too about what happened in pennsylvania...it just seems too perfect lol. i think something giving me hope is im seeing more people in my personal life realize the importance of investing in community and helping others around you. at the end of the day we're the only ones who can keep each other safe.
I'm not here to lecture anybody about how they should feel about our political system or the options we have presented before us. It's hardly required to be enthusiastic about a candidate, ever. But to anyone thinking of not voting, or voting for a third party? Research #Project2025.
This is a battle between a democratic candidate--however mediocre--and absolute ruin. If you read about Project 2025, you will have a hard time not understanding the stakes.
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I love you. You are my brother. But abstaining from voting only helps the cause of fascism.
Voting is literally the least any American can do. Vote blue and then get busy doing the real work.
Speak on it!
Liberalism naturally veers towards fascism because of a misguided adherence to respectability politics, allowing hate speech to thrive and economic exploitation. Just look at how all the Dems reacted following Trump assassination attempt, sending all their thoughts and prayers. They'd do the same thing if this were 1930s Germany and Hitler got shot. Voting blue is just delaying the inevitable b/c libs will either willing give up the reins of power should they fear for their private property and for the sake of "law and order," or they will allow fascists to be voted into office, just as Hitler was voted in. The fear mongering about "saving democracy" this cycle is comical, given the fact there's only ever been a democracy for the rich and a dictatorship for the rest of us. Just because we vote doesn't mean it's a democracy when it's billionaires that choose the candidates. If we're a democracy so is Russia and Iran.
strong disagree
We agree on one thing, voting IS THE LEAST we can do. And I believe we should all be doing so much more.
hey harry what is the term for democrats squashing protests with force?
As always great points
I've been a little critical in some of my comments but I want to say that overall i agree and I thank you for the thoughtful video
I lost faith in the democratic party after learning about Obama's straight-up war crimes, followed by Biden getting to be the party nominee in 2020. Unfortunately, the top priority has to be preventing Trump's reelection. Donald Trump, with presidential immunity and a partisan supreme court, would spend 4 years reversing as many civic and environmental protections as possible.
I'm for prison abolition, but I think focusing on that before the most consequential election in history isn't instilling me with confidence. She wasn't my first choice, but she's the choice we have. And given our other option, it would be easier to have our grievances met with her or any Democrat in the White House than with Trump and the Right's "Project 2025"
She is as pro genocide as the rest of them. There is no domestic issue that can justify voting to continue orchestrating literal genocide. ✌🏽
So we focus on abolition when the system sets the "right" conditions? I'm confused on what we think revolutionary struggle or change is
@PrinceShakurRUclips when you figure out a definition that doesn't put the most vulnerable at risk for the sake of revolution let me know because I can't think of one.
@@cookie8162 The most vulnerable are always at risk. Under Democrats or Republicans. It's not like Republicans haven't been plenty successful stripping away rights under Democrats, cops aren't murdering and r*ping people under Democrats, people aren't dying and being enslaved in prisons, innocents being mass murdered overseas, hate violence towards LGBTQ haven't risen under Democrats, homelessness isn't exploding everywhere and being criminalized harshly under Dems, ect. It's not a question of protecting the most vulnerable here, voting for Dems doesn't do that, it's having some standards in place. Lines that can't be crossed, and if they are, organizing from the bottom up and forcing out entrenched governments becomes the only real answer.
@@PrinceShakurRUclipsWhy can't we focus on revolution against Kamala? I did the footwork under Trump and under Biden. It was hell both times but Trump was worse. Kamalla isn't my messiah but neither is acting like she would be equally as bad as Trump. She won't. And I would rather fight a Black woman and queer ally before an outspoken misogynist and racist who leans into fascism overtly.
Not at all. This is not "what we're left with" at all. This isnt the way it has to be. Its the way that it IS tho because its been left to those who vote.
Do you have any idea how far left the Overton window would shift if leftists actually voted?
We are left with a system that you can get involved with TODAY. That you can join TODAY. That you can run for office TODAY. That you can win a seat TODAY.
Many people who have never involved themselves in things love talking about those things. Especially content creators.. please be wary of those individuals.
It takes nothing to throw rocks at something you do not understand.
Good luck, everyone.
#vote
Who doesn't understand?
whats the name of the podcast you quoted in the last section?
It's video called "Ferguson communique"
Nothing will ever improve.
Do your job. Pay your bills and vote against the Republican.
Look around. This is the best it’s gonna get.
I’m voting RFK for this exact reason. The two party system needs to end and even if he doesn’t win, I want an independent to get record numbers so people stop parroting the “wasted vote” line.
great video as always! do you where the cilp from 10:33 is from? i tried to read the text below it but it was to small for me to read
Ah sorry about that small text. It's "Ferguson Speaks A Communique From Ferguson", one of my favorite videos from 2014 movement stuff
@@PrinceShakurRUclips ohh okay, thank you for telling me i appreciate it and will definitely check out the video 🙏🩷
I thought we were going cornel yall😩
Under kamala, are we to act surprised when every major city has a cop city at its hub, people are still working 3 jobs to survive, and civil rights continue to be stripped away? At the end of the day the 2 choices are fascism or fascism, i feel like this word gets thrown around a lot but many people forget that it’s already here
I'm a bit tired of that expression "master's tool won't dismantle the master's house", a tool is a tool, and my ancestors literally used the masters tools against them to free themselves during the Haitian revolution (and got f-- ed since then but that's a different discussion).
I know the expression is there to bring about attention on different modes of thinking, but the way I see it used mostly is to promote non-participative complacency rather than actual concrete resistance.
I say, use any tool you can find to resist and sabotage the system even your own shoes (which is by the way where the word sabotage comes from "shoe"). No good deed is too small.
not to say that liberation can’t/won’t be achieved in our lifetime, but i would rather elect the candidate who WON’T implement fascism + completely ruin that possibility (complete liberation) for future generations. i am thinking outside of myself this election, the future deserves it.
I get what you're saying. But we can't argue our way out of liberalism and neo liberalism, how can we even BEGIN to confront fascism?
@@PrinceShakurRUclips Community. It has always been by not ignoring the people around you. Facism exists when people look to a leader to absolve their problems because they don’t have an established connection with themselves and their community and so they seek identity and belonging through essentially a cult of propaganda.
It makes you look annoying at first, lord knows I am but when you understand how populist thought works, you can understand how to work with others to move it the right way.
@PrinceShakurRUclips I get where you're coming from. Democrats are at fault for allowing Trump to win in 2016 in the first place due to their own hubris and their tendency to keep the status quo instead of strive for progress.
That being said, "confronting fascism" is a non-starter if Trump and his theocratic cronies get elected. This election is about protecting democracy against fascism. The only way we can hope to shift the overton window further left is by first demonstrating that fascism is unacceptable to Americans by VOTING AGAINST IT. There is no good argument against abstaining from voting blue at this particular moment in time if you genuinely care about protecting people's freedom, democracy and marginalized people's rights. I would share in more of your cynicism if Republicans weren't being so mask off in their rhetoric. Democrats will at least respect your right to oppose their views and they have been shown to adopt more progressive policies in some areas
@@PrinceShakurRUclips organization OUTSIDE of election year, more cohesive coalition within/about our communities. there’s no one correct answer. i just feel that this is all a gradual process that won’t happen overnight + that harris is the most viable candidate in this moment.
So you're voting for Claudia de la Cruz?
I agree with most of what you say here, and I appreciate it because the excitment for getting a top cop as head of the exec is really annoying. Also, we have to do things beyond electoralism 100% all day!
That said, and I'm not saying you advocated this, I just feel this needs to be brought up because I see too many leftists bring 3rd parties up uncritically: all the nationally recognized or widespread 3rd party Presidential candidates here in the US are corporate backed, too. Whether it's Jill Stein, or that weirdo in 2016 who tried to say that the sun exploding in 7 billion years made the very real threat of climate change irrelavent, or lest we forget the horrible run of Cornel West who's been hanging around with literal white supremacists(!), these people and these parties are also, not your friends. They're grifters taking their cut from more niche corners of US politics.
Instead, I'd advocate for the building of new local third parties like Fannie Lou Hammer and so many others did back in the day because Dems were bound and determined to uphold the status quo whenever and wherever possible. Then, make your nation-wide coalitions and mergings into stronger 3rd parties.
But... just to reitterate... that's still working *within* the system which can't be the only path to "better futures".
Thanks again for the vid!
I agree with most of your critiques of the national parties and the anti-democratic measures they use to maintain power and their desire to perpetuate America's oligarchy. What I cannot abide is the inference that voting on the national level does not matter. I believe it matters on the margins. For instance, Biden's support of UAW and his nominees for the NLRB led to substantive, material gains for people. When you talk about grassroot efforts to fundamentally change local politics, I believe unions will be a part of those movements. If that happens, Biden's policies will be directly responsible. His prescription drug plan directly helped my family (and thousands of others) as did his student loan forgiveness plan. Lastly, I do not know anyone who thinks voting blue will save us - at least among the working class folks I know. The people that I know who will vote for Harris are engaging in harm reduction voting. These same people engage in local grassroots organizing because they, too, know that that's the only strategy that will save us. We can engage in harm reduction voting to give us the emotional space and time to do the necessary grassroots organizing. It is not an either/or; we can do both.
The media was too busy focusing on Biden being old and giving that attention, rather than focusing on the progressive things Biden did. Biden is more progressive than I thought he would be.
@@lovestarlightgiver2402 it wasn't his age it was his mental faculties. he could've been 20 years younger with the same symptoms and the narratives would be the same, or he could have been five years older and still sharp and we'd focus on something else.
and no amount of progressive measures excuse genocide.
@@lovestarlightgiver2402 I could not agree more. In his first two years, he passed som truly impactful legislation. He will also leaves behind a rich legacy of judges that will absolutely make a difference in the future. With all that said, I will still be out here engaging in community organizing because I know that's where we can really impact people's lives.
Don't start a fire while you're still inside the master's house though
Yeah still voting for Kamala
I agree that Kamala or any politician for that matter is not going to fix all the deep seated issues in our country, they will make mistakes of their own. But don't you think it would be easier to fight fascism and other issues under a democrat vs a brazen fascist republican like Trump?
Also don't you think preserving LGBT rights is worth it? Because under Trump we are back to square 1.
Obama took it back to square 1 as well, running on Roe, then saying 'not a priority' (Cuz it's the perfect fundraiser carrot year after year) It's easier to fight Red and Blue fascism (corporatism) by divesting from duopoly thinking. Direct action is where it's at. (See college students with real morals protesting genocide).
Who's the Vice President right now? How're things going for us queer folks right now? And where is the democracy when it comes to Kamala and any politician for that matter actively murdering hundreds of thousands of people in Palestine and countless others across the world?
liberals go to brunch when there's a D in office, in fact they were not nearly as incensed against bush as they were/are for trump. I think it might be easier to fight fascism when an extra 30 million people recognize that there IS fascism instead of making excuses for it like they have been doing these last few years.
I don't think we should expect for fascism to be easier to fight. That's the point of fascism. It hides in obvious and not so obvious places
Do the Democrats drag their feet about prison abolition? About a ceasefire demand? Or reparations? Do they drone and bomb other countries?
You’re a whole bot if u didn’t mind trump winning . Contradicting everything
You're a liar
voting blue right now is prob the best thing a person could do .... trump term would be baaaaaaaaaaaaaad get out and vote
I don't think it's the best thing
@@PrinceShakurRUclips to vote? and save democarcy isnt the best thing? come on
@@PrinceShakurRUclips Yesss. Definitely not the best thing. Now, here’s where you tell us how you are getting the electorate population and making them leftists. I mean we aren’t dealing with agents of the state here. I hate when leftists talk about unity and working together but they just totally disconnect from the population around them and the community they are in. Half the voting population in this country are voting for Trump. And this is where you think we should be most concerned?
There is very little difference between the two American parties... (see the famous Gore Vidal quote)... Kamala Harris is, I guess, better than Trump, but it's still just business (& capitalism) as usual.
You new?
to what?
@@PrinceShakurRUclips “voting doesnt matter” at scale is what gets you trump. Your take is wildly myopic and puts people (like myself nonbinary/trans) in real harm because you’re on a high horse about “both parties are bad so lets fight facism”. Instead it should be Vote blue then do the work to make things better. To say anything else rn is reckless at best and completely delusional at worst. Everything sucks. Get to the work with context we’re handed. This whole idea that not voting for dems somehow is doing POC any favors is wildly stupid in a way I can’t actually wrap my mind around. While we’re over here fighting trump and gop is collecting wins. Nothing is perfect. But that doesnt mean you sit shit out or “fight facism”. Right now you vote to save us from an agenda that will end you me and anyone who looks like us a hell of lot quicker than anything dems will do asap. I like your videos but this take feels widly off.
@@PrinceShakurRUclipsmy comment was deleted?