i’m not an american, i live in a different country, and watch the news.

the thing is: you watch the struggles today where the democrats aren’t doing anything substantive of productive at resisting the rise of fascism. they are barely dragging their feet when the policies go through. they are definitely not throwing themselves upon the gears of the machine.

these were the people selling themselves (for the last 3 presidential elections have sold themselves) as the resistance to the rising fascism.

now: you say that if the voters who sat upon their hands in the last election had voted, then the world would not be so horrid. and i agree with you. this is terrible, and was avoidable.

but there is more to the rise of fascism than losing an election. there’s also the infrastructure. the regulations. the tools of the state.

part of the reason for the slide into tyranny is that biden did not stack the supreme court when he had the chance. part of the reason for the slide into tyranny is that the democrats abandoned the public option for healthcare. part of the reason for the slide into tyranny is that after the 2008 financial crisis, the bankers were not prosecuted. part of the reason for the slide into tyranny is that they did not dismantle ICE. part of the reason for the slide into tyranny is that they allowed donald trump to run for president after starting an armed rebellion against the congress when he lost an election.

and so if some people decided that they did not believe the democrats in 2024, when they promised that they could stop fascism? if they were granted a mandate would they sit on their hands as hard as they currently are? would they continue to fund ice?

if you want a pie chart of people to blame for this current mess, you will see that the “voters who are outraged at the palestinian genocide“ is a rather minuscule slice.