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John Fetterman says he'll 'never understand' progressives who refuse to support Joe Biden
(www.businessinsider.com)
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Yes, but those are the choices that it comes down to in the general, really. What do you propose people do?
Well it depends on your own politics and goals so I can only speak from my own perspective. It's a bleak time to be a socialist because we don't have any political representation in NA really. The route I see is more mimicking what civil rights leaders were doing in the 50s-60s which was organizing labor unions. We don't have a big cultural moment like they did though and the labor movement isn't what it used to be, partly because of bipartisan views against it, union busting and policies watering it down, and we're fragmented, there's no class consciousness in today's political dialogue. Huge demonstrations like the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom (where the famous "I have a dream" speech was delivered), or direct actions like the freedom rides, I don't think is really possible in today's cultural setting.
I think if you're just a regular working person you can begin by organizing and trying to unionize your workplace, but even that has risks. Maybe that just means finding coworkers who share your sentiments, but ultimately it's talking to people. I'm in a unionized workplace so what do I do next, I try and get involved and do what I can. I've also joined my workplace's DEI committee to input more solidarity and political economy-aware notions of what that means opposed to the default corporate diversity industry's ideas, I saw an opportunity there and it's been very well received by some key coworkers... So assuming you're doing what you can in your job setting, the one thing that will define your "success" in life, the embodiment of your relationship to capital and the economy. Next you can get involved politically. For me that has been things like canvassing for someone who was running for office who shared my political ideology and goals, for the most left wing party in my country. At one point a close friend ran for office so I got a glimpse of that world, and we were able to increase the party's share of the popular vote in that riding, a highly contested riding between the dominant 2 parties who spend millions of dollars there, so we all considered that a success for a third party candidate there.
I think meaningful political action is really about the context of your own life and what you're able to do. No matter what it is, it really comes down to unglamorous work and talking to people. Maybe that's collecting enough signatures for a motion against a proposed bylaw to be accepted by your municipality, canvassing your own representative by organizing people, volunteering for a candidate you agree with. It could be cultural too like supporting events and causes that your politics aligns with. I have a few direct actions I do personally on the environmental front which involve restoring habitats and bit of civil disobedience (not law-breaking). It's all work though, it's not about liking some social media post or saying "agree" under a post like this, that's all meaningless distraction. Anything done online is meaningless basically.