I have much respect for drag and don’t disagree with that point in general, but in this particular case I must protest.
Democracy is a process for legitimizing a government. The voters cannot fail at voting, they can only be failed by elected parties that don’t faithfully represent their interests once in power. The responsibility is entirely incumbent on the parties themselves, as they get to pick how they manipulate public sentiment into supporting them and the voters have no agency in the decisions those parties make.
Drag thinks the voters can fail at voting. Drag could visit the Proud Boys annual general meeting and propose that drag should be the leader of the Proud Boys. Drag could present a 17-point plan to reduce misogyny and queerphobia in the organisation, support mutual aid structures in the community, improve members’ access to mental health services, and everyone there would rather shoot drag dead than vote for drag. Why? Because proud boys are neo-nazis, and they want to be lead by nazis.
American has decided that it wants to be lead by nazis too. This wouldn’t have happened if everyone in the USA was an informed, highly educated, intelligent person of empathy. Drag was excited about not electing a fascist to the white house. America wasn’t, because America isn’t that well-informed, intelligent or empathetic. Harris should have recognised that Americans are fascism-apologists who need more motivation than she gave them to vote. AND Americans shouldn’t have been fascism-apologists who need more motivation to vote. Either group could have solved the problem if they were better. We got a fascist dictator because they both suck.
Two people can both be 100% to blame for something.
I have much respect for drag and don’t disagree with that point in general, but in this particular case I must protest.
Democracy is a process for legitimizing a government. The voters cannot fail at voting, they can only be failed by elected parties that don’t faithfully represent their interests once in power. The responsibility is entirely incumbent on the parties themselves, as they get to pick how they manipulate public sentiment into supporting them and the voters have no agency in the decisions those parties make.
Drag thinks the voters can fail at voting. Drag could visit the Proud Boys annual general meeting and propose that drag should be the leader of the Proud Boys. Drag could present a 17-point plan to reduce misogyny and queerphobia in the organisation, support mutual aid structures in the community, improve members’ access to mental health services, and everyone there would rather shoot drag dead than vote for drag. Why? Because proud boys are neo-nazis, and they want to be lead by nazis.
American has decided that it wants to be lead by nazis too. This wouldn’t have happened if everyone in the USA was an informed, highly educated, intelligent person of empathy. Drag was excited about not electing a fascist to the white house. America wasn’t, because America isn’t that well-informed, intelligent or empathetic. Harris should have recognised that Americans are fascism-apologists who need more motivation than she gave them to vote. AND Americans shouldn’t have been fascism-apologists who need more motivation to vote. Either group could have solved the problem if they were better. We got a fascist dictator because they both suck.