Wanderthread Redux (Part 1)

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Wanderfound · July 14, 2020, 12:01am

“Well, my position really hasn’t changed. I’m not going to actually support either of the major candidates. But I do think we have to participate in the election. I mean, that isn’t to say that I won’t vote for the Democratic candidate. What I’m saying is that in our electoral system as it exists, neither party represents the future that we need in this country. Both parties remain connected to corporate capitalism. But the election will not so much be about who gets to lead the country to a better future, but rather how we can support ourselves and our own ability to continue to organize and place pressure on those in power. And I don’t think there’s a question about which candidate would allow that process to unfold.

“So I think that we’re going to have to translate some of the passion that has characterized these demonstrations into work within the electoral arena, recognizing that the electoral arena is not the best place for the expression of radical politics. But if we want to continue this work, we certainly need a person in office who will be more amenable to our mass pressure. And to me, that is the only thing that someone like a Joe Biden represents. But we have to persuade people to go out and vote to guarantee that the current occupant of the White House is forever ousted.”

Summarised: “voting has minimal impact on American politics, but Biden may be an easier enemy to defeat, so vote Biden”.

It’s a defensible argument, but not an unassailable one.

On the one hand, a Biden victory would see all of the middle class liberals switch sides and return to overtly defending the status quo.

OTOH, it’s not like they were providing any meaningful resistance anyway.

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