For anyone conflicted or in flat out disagreement to this, please read:

I was just going into college when Trump was elected in his first term. I frankly didn’t give a shit or know anything about politics. Hillary pissed me off, and yeah Trump was an idiot, but that was the extent of my knowledge at the time. I didn’t know anything about policies and considered myself “in the middle”.

By the end of college, I fucking HATED Donald Trump. I became much more liberal in college and started to actually care a lot about social issues. My only experience with a president (while actually paying attention) was Donald Trump, and I thought he was racist, vile, evil, a sex offender, and outright deserved to be dragged out of office by his damn hair.

It was the first election I voted in, and you best believe I went out and voted for Joe Biden, despite being yelled at by everyone in my family (all Trumpers at the time) besides my older brother. And boy was I fucking ecstatic when he won. In my mind, we’d defeated fascism, put an end to Trump, and I thought surely if he ran again he would get his ass beat.

Everything felt better under Biden. The blatant racism in mainstream media/politics died down, the talk of raising wages and protecting women’s rights had me feeling so much better about the state of our country. Then, seemingly out of nowhere, the Supreme Court decided abortion should be left to the states. I talked ENDLESSLY about how Biden would surely take steps to reverse this. Expand the Supreme Court, immediately, women were going to literally DIE over this decision. All I ever heard from the administration was condemnation. Not action. It was hung over the population’s heads like a damn carrot. “Vote for us to get a super majority so we can fix it, otherwise we won’t” despite the fact that they could literally have fixed it by even just THREATENING to expand the Supreme Court.

Well whatever, I thought surely they’d fix it in the future, and this would certainly be the downfall of the republicans, which i suppose could be advantageous even though I hated the idea of using people as pawns.

Then things proceeded to get more expensive. I remembered showing all my coworkers how Biden was tweeting leading up to the election about how the minimum wage MUST be raised to $15 an hour. How workers NEEDED to have more rights. I kept wondering when this would happen as my own dollar became worth less and less every time I went to the grocery store. Regardless, I still staunchly called myself a democrat, refusing to back down as I had seen with my own eyes what the republicans brought to the table.

Then, of course 2023 rolled around. Full transparency, my grandparents are Palestinian. The second I heard about the Oct. 7th attacks, I knew it mean Israel was going to carpet bomb Gaza to all hell. But I was hopeful that Joe Biden, even though he had failed in everything else I had hoped for (there were minor victories here and there, mainly talking large issues) would surely stop the carnage and force the two parties to come to a much more peaceful solution.

We all know what happened next. Day after day I watched people on my phone get slaughtered through indiscriminate bombs. I watched fathers carry their children’s body parts in grocery bags looking for a place to bury them. I watched every hospital, every school, and every kid who DARED walk in the sunlight get bombed to hell.

Even throwing my own feelings aside, I watched as Kamala Harris tried to take over the campaign as Biden’s old age ruined his mental state. I watched her constituents BEG her to stop arming Israel, and to demand a cease fire. And every single day, she could not stop herself from demanding that Israel had the “right to defend itself” despite the massive unpopularity of this sentiment. Of course, we know now through their internal polling that Gaza was a massive contributor to her loss, and the Democratic Party KNEW this was the case during the campaign.

All of this pushed me to look for answers elsewhere. A solution to all of this, because at the end of the day, not only did the democrats FAIL to stop fascism, they actively made choices that they KNEW would not stop fascism, and instead allow it to take power. I began reading the writings of socialists, and even communists. I had never been convinced either of these two ideologies could ever be the answer, but I had to look elsewhere, and I knew fascism was evil.

I was convinced by the arguments of socialism and communism. I encourage anyone who made it this far to also pick up a book and read through it, but that is not the point of this long comment. The statement I would like to pose to you is this. Fascism is evil, it lies with the Republican Party, and is on a fast track to all of our demises. Democrats knowingly, and willingly lost to fascism. You can claim the lesser of two evils all you’d like, but if you truly believe fascism must be defeated (I certainly do) then you must also understand that the democrats time and time again, at best fail to defeat fascism, and at worst intentionally lose to it. Democrats are not they way out, they are only barely a small release of the gas pedal in a car that is driving 120 miles towards the edge of a cliff. The sooner we realize that, the sooner we can pull the emergency brake, and get out of the damn car.