2020 was… truly unique. It was so hard to stay away from doom scrolling, and I (and many others) were pretty disillusioned by the sad fact that so much of our country legitimately supported the Orange Man. I didn’t get a wink of sleep the night of the election because I genuinely considered it to be a make or break decision for America.
My point is that looking back on it, in the end the only real difference I made was at the ballet box. This year I’m going for the Head-in-the-Sand approach. I’m done with the political memes. Done with the Twitter screenshots. It just riles me up and this year I’m gonna do my best to fight that.
My approach is the same as it’s been since 1996: FUCK THE REPUBLICANS.
I don’t need to follow the news. I don’t need to pay attention to dumbfuck liberals or self-styled progressives online. I know the score, and I know what to do. “Vote blue no matter who?” Fuck you, you self-righteous, terminally online shitfountain; I’ve been doing that since I turned 18.
Why? Because GOP = KKK, and has been since the fucking Nixon administration. The Republicans are terminally infested with fundies, fascists, and white supremacists, and has been since Lee Atwater came up with the Southern Strategy.
Unfortunately, this means voting Democrat or for myself as a write-in (when the only candidate for a given office is a Republican). Why do I call this unfortunate? The Democrats are a neoliberal party. They might allow progressives to run in primaries, but its corporate-friendly neoliberals who make it to the general election. That means having to vote for capital-friendly stooges like Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden. Unfortunately, voting third-party or not voting at all helps Republicans more than it harms Democrats, so I’ve got to hold my nose and vote for neoliberals to keep neo-Nazis from winning elections.
However, I’m not holding out much hope for Dems in 2024. All Biden had going for him in 2020 was that he isn’t Trump. That’s not going to cut it in 2024. Not after four years of everything going up but our wages.
Frankly, I’d rather just kill 'em all and let the carrion-eaters sort 'em out. Fuck democracy; we barely even have a republic. What we have is an empire governed by an oligarchy that has generally managed to swap out figurehead emperors every 4-8 years without a lot of bloodshed.