Yeah, you don’t get it. I don’t care who votes for whom. I care that people are wasting their effort, their organizing, and their relationships on voting. In this comment section alone, but of course all over the country, people are spending hours and hours arguing for the virtues of voting, of campaigning and door knocking, they make moral black and white statements like “if you didn’t vote for X then you voted for Y”, and people are saying so hard that things would be better if only everyone would just stop having standards and vote for genocidaires like it’s literally the only valid moral position.

The problem isn’t voting or not voting. The problem is that electorialism itself is a way to absorb the energy we need to fight back. The Democrats aren’t saving our neighbors, we are by being in the streets. The Democrats who get minor reforms passed are either cynically attracting your attention or genuinely attracting your attention while being funded by cynical leaders who are just trying to keep all of the energy contained to electoralism.

The way we win is in the street. It always has been. We can go back through history and show how nearly everything worth having was won by people fighting, not by rock the vote campaigns.