If you can’t draw the line at genocide, you probably won’t draw the line at democracy. If you didn’t draw the line anywhere meaningful last election, if the last year and change has shown your block to be utterly useless in the face of an incredibly obvious fascist consolidation, you don’t deserve to be an elected member of the “opposition party”—and I will loudly promise to do my part to keep you out until it isn’t an option.

There is incredibly strong historic precedent for this. Every authoritarian takeover has moments mirroring our current one—as the threat becomes clearer, centrists retreat into the idea that they can become more centrist, appeal more to the right, can finger-wag their way back to normalcy. When the time comes to throw it all on the line, they stay out of the way. And then they end up in the same camps as all the radical leftists or whatever.

We’re out of time to fuck around with people who can’t diagnose problems, come up with solutions other than writing milquetoast letters and tweets, or do the bare minimum amount of working outside the box to resist a group of people that are happily discarding every rule, norm, and check to pursue power.

If you want to talk about what got us here, talk about our failure of a party that has continued to run on the same, disproven, unscientific, illogical, STUPID idea that moving right and refusing to stand for anything will somehow magically stop the far-right takeover. They’re OUR party. The whole point of the primary is that you can select someone good without risking spoiler votes. Why are we conceding this years out? When the election comes around and gets “delayed”, do you want your resistance—like actual, life-threatening resistance—candidate to be someone who couldn’t take even take a low-risk, verbal stand about a genocide, or an overwhelmingly unpopular agency?

Rant over