A couple of key passages in a Washington Post article read, “But many abortion rights supporters say Republicans have routinely broken the rules in recent years and benefited enormously from it — for example, by blocking President Barack Obama’s Supreme Court pick — and that for Democrats to continue observing the niceties amounts to unilateral disarmament. ‘We are dealing with one side that is undermining the very essence of what it means to be a country that roots itself in this philosophy of equal protection under the law. You cannot battle that if folks on the other side are always moderating, modulating and compromising. It’s not the age we’re in,’ said the Rev. William Barber, a North Carolina preacher who is co-chair of the Poor People’s Campaign. … ‘Democrats start with the question of, “Are we allowed to do this or not?” And I think Democratic voters will forgive you if you try and later on it turns out a court strikes it down,’ Bardella said. ‘But at least you tried in the meantime to keep things in place and head toward the next election. What they won’t forgive is if you keep asking them to keep you in power but you don’t do anything with it, or at least try to do something with it.’… ‘It’s very similar to what happened in 2020: “Go back to the voting booths.”… It always comes back to “Now you, the individual, do something,”’ said Paris Hatcher, executive director for Black Feminist Future. ‘But we’ve elected these people who are in office at this very moment to take action on things like this. It becomes a very passive way to pass the buck when we have elected them to make things happen that center on the well-being of the people.’”
I quoted much, but there was much to be said better than I could. I think the voices in the article have it exactly right, and it is nothing different from my complaining about dumbass Democrats for — well — basically as long as I have been voting. Democrats are the weak, stupid, and incompetent party, which occasionally wins elections to slow RepubliKKKlan fascism, but never enough to defeat it. (Sadly, it is the least of the worst choices, so I always vote Democratic.) Nonetheless, it is clear that voters and even some Democratic strategists understand this, but — as the article articulates — leadership is utterly worthless for this moment. Let’s face it. After these significant events, Biden and Pelosi come out to say things, things, and more things. Then it is radio silence. That’s not leadership; those are just empty words and gestures. They are really good at saying “go vote” randomly. Sure — yes, and…? Dumbass Democrats keep hearkening back to a past that no longer exists and will never exist again. How many times have I said dumbass Democrats lack the ruthlessness to defeat RepubliKKKlans? How many f***ing times? Do not expect the Democratic Party to save you from RepubliKKKlan fascism, for their pusillanimousness is becoming part of the problem. It is time to take matters into your own hands. It is time to take to the streets. No justice, no peace! What side of history will you be on when the time comes to declare? Welcome to stupid America!