By Steven Johnson

Just a quick reminder that the Bidens, the Obamas, and the lady that we are going to have to vote for (at least in swing states) are HORRIBLE HUMAN BEINGS who could end the genocide in Gaza by denying Israel weapons. They don’t do that because they need money from AIPAC and other Zionist donors to win, which is a result of the fact that not enough people are sufficiently organized in the US to make it possible to win the presidency and many seats in the House and Senate using only small donations from huge numbers of people, Sanders and Squad style. And the even more important reason why they don’t do it is because they, along with the whole of Western capitalist interests, are beholden to the military-industrial complex.

To anybody who thinks we should not SAY the above truth, because we must say only positive things about Harris and Dems to get them elected, my response is that allowing political discourse to descend to such a base level that we cannot oppose a genocide with extreme vigor will arguably be just as dangerous, in the long run, as Trump getting elected again. It paves the way for more Gazas, sponsored by Democrats and Republicans, until the carnage comes home to visit you and me.

To anybody who says, “Wait! But we CAN vote for someone else! Pick among Green, PSL, ABC, and XYZ!”, I’d urge you to question longstanding left dogmas that don’t apply, revisit basic math and simple logic, and focus your energies on building up a mass movement through essential movement-growing non-electorally-centered pursuits (organizing workplaces and neighborhoods, starting local media discussion groups, doing direct actions, organizing mutual aid, etc.), and run candidates, using only a fraction of a massive movement’s overall resources, once the movement is big enough to make the Democrats, and not ourselves, the spoiler vote, and win.

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