Seriously are we going to have a conversation about how not doing politics or not engaging electorally is leaving countless folks open to the seductive ways of orgs like Turning Point and AIPAC?
Like folks are so busy scrambling and doing the I hate these people cause this reason (not saying it isn’t valid) or I don’t do Electoral politics cause this reason and literally have left the right unchecked as thy make massive incursions and investments.
All them accounts and groups have massive followings and have spent time developing, building and nurturing the wrong damn mindsets and bad rhetoric. No we don’t have to be Democrats. But Progressives and others are too damn scared or recalcitrant to build the coalition.
Meaning you can’t sit around talking about yay my DSA membership card if you aren’t in the streets knocking doors and building with people. Not the select few you already know from Occupy.
As @MrMaxwellmusic notes if you are not engaging in electoral politics then you need to still have some kind of organizing or mutual aid/direct aid work that is building community capacity. It is not enough to criticize What others are not doing or doing wrong.
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