The comments are even worse. The fact this rhetoric made it even there genuinely makes me feels terrible. Are even other transfems this liberal or is this fed work?
The comments are even worse. The fact this rhetoric made it even there genuinely makes me feels terrible. Are even other transfems this liberal or is this fed work?
As a trans woman, get the fuck outta here with that logic. It disgusts me whenever I see people, of my community no less, playing that “lesser evil” game when said evil is championing the cause of genocide and pushing the world to WW3. Anyone promoting “safety” at the price of genocide and imperialism deserves every bit of evil they direct onto others coming home to roost.
What’s the winning move then? In my understanding the two party regime is too entrenched in us to change, so every move leads to the same unfavorable outcome (in your view anyways). That’s not a good mental state to do anything
Edit: Also it’s not like you’re exchanging (un)safety for genocide. This isn’t a choice between those two, it’s a choice between whether one or both will happen.
The winning move is understanding that no one in the “good cop, bad cop” political theater is your friend, that no true, permanent safety and security will be offered by that system, and figuring out how to either insulate oneself from the issues of the system, or getting the hell out- not accepting a role as part of the problem.
I agree it’s not a good mental state. But we have to work within reality. And this is the reality that everyone in the west who is a minority, who is not part of the bourgeoisie, etc. faces.
The winning move is not to play their game.
Yes, it’s not a good mental state for us. But it’s the uncomfortable truth.
What does it accomplish other than making you uncomfortable?
I will not lie to myself and say that this is fine, just because it makes me uncomfortable since that doesn’t solve anything. The fact that both parties are the same is not the end anyway, since there’s a way out. But that requires social uprisings.
Thinking outside the box for starters. You’ve been gaslight into thinking that the only valid form of political action is to participate in the very system that cause the oppression you want to get rid of and as a result can’t seem to consider anything outside of that scope even though there is so much more you can do, even though every single minority rights you have in the US was won by fighting against the system and not by participating in it like liberals like to pretend.
Look at the civil right movement, look at what Martin Lutter King jr and Malcolm X did, look at what the black panthers did, look at what the various labor movements did, look at how the LGBTQ+ community fought back against the lavender scare.
Despite what the capitalist state would like you to believe, exactly none of the rights these movements secured for you today were ever won by voting, all of them were won by fighting for them on the ground.