Successful movements have radical, progressive & moderate flanks. We need ppl working inside the Democratic Party & we need grassroots organizers & we need protesters. Find your position & play it, but don’t fight your teammates bc they play a different position.
Social media convinces people that unless everyone is playing the same position, you aren’t on the same team. It’s like a soccer game with all goalies or a chess game with all pawns. I wish we didn’t have to play this cursed game at all. But..
that’s the world we inherited. There should be red lines around who can be on the team but total purity won’t save anyone.
I see myself as part of the progressive and radical flanks of this movement. I will never run for office. I have voted Democrat reluctantly, as a strategic act not as a moral endorsement. But I don’t think those working within the party are the enemy or deluded.
And to further clarify: the Democratic Party as a whole is NOT ON THE TEAM. I am referring to people committed to Palestinian liberation who are working to push the needle within local or national elections, including by pushing Democrats.
Btw the original post equally addresses “moderates” who denounce protests as extreme or counter productive.
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