One thing I have noticed is that when a dem is in office it becomes much easier to tell who your comrades are.

I do think the trump era did move a lot of people left, but in the end we all saw how so many radlibs just went back to brunch once Biden was elected. If someone’s opposing a dem while that dem is in office, I think there’s a much greater chance that person is committed to some sort of leftism. With a republican president we just get liberals with radical aesthetic, like “the resistance.” Sort of dumb reason to be pro-dem but just something I’ve noticed lately.

the good news is the western left does not exist

"harm reduction" and my friend wants to keep getting HRT which makes state-level dems materially different from republicans for her... for now.

At this point the only electoralism I can support is specific candidates or maybe some kind of local movement

Entryism into the Democratic party on the national level was always a fools errand, the best you could ever hope to do would be take over the party at the state level in a red state where they're weak and even that's a long shot

This is how they do it.

Step 1: Dislike those that identify as right wingers for the most petty reasons (such as @Civility@hexbear.net ) instead of politically significant differences.

Step 2: Appropriate an identity that is ostensibly opposed to right wingers.

Step 3: Shit on actual left wingers constantly to try to shove them out of their own identity, which also protects the status quo.

“Harm reduction” only lasts for so long

American democrats in 2023 are the equivalent of 2004 Republicans

call Palis, a semitic people, antisemitic while arming nazis in Ukraine and also looking the other way when Israel bombs Palestinians (which is every other day)

the contradictions of being a cumskin

Their new strategy is promising progressive policies, getting into office, starting some horrific proxy war that the Republicans also would have done, paying PR companies to market it as progressive, then sacrificing all of their progressive policies in congress to continue the horrific proxy war because it's actually the most progressive policy ever and if you disagree you're a Russian bot.

It's almost like the west uses "human rights" only as a cynical pretext to justify their brutal capitalist regimes wanton murder across the globe.