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how are we supposed to trust these people to fight for us if they couldn't even do something as simple as vote? there will be plenty of hard decisions that need to be made down the road (many of which have nothing to do with voting or elections). how are we supposed to trust that they will be willing to protect as many human lives as we can? how are we supposed to trust that their egos won't get in the way?

everything trump is doing right now was very clearly outlined in project 2025. it was not a secret and it was not hidden. people act like they had no idea what was coming when we knew exactly what was. and the people who kept pointing out project 2025 got called fearmongers and not taken seriously because people were tired of "orange man bad".

white leftists want to move on from this so badly. they want to sweep it under the rug so badly. they do not realize the depths of rage we feel having to reckon with what they participated in condemning our communities to. there is constant talk of complicity when it comes to palestine, how we are all complicit because our tax dollars go to bombs. they are complicit in this. in the cutting of usaid funds. in what's going on in minnesota right now. it is not entirely their fault, but they are complicit. and the reason they're so desperate for the conversation to move away from this is because they can't sit with that.

YES YES YES EXACTLY

I think it is very telling that this is basically the exact sentiment I've heard from other people of color, too. there is a stark contrast between discourses within leftist communities of color vs white leftist communities. the head of my university's diversity program (being vague about naming because I feel like giving direct titles would make it obvious where I attend; there are multiple programs and departments here with different bents towards inclusivity and affirmative action and not all of them are publicly known on the website even so. bugger off, if any of my stalkers are reading this) came to speak to my class last semester and ended her speech with "...and for the love of god, people died for your right to vote. voting matters. go. vote."

and I think that hits on the key privilege blindspot that causes a lot of this discourse, and why in particular Black Americans are so staunchly aware of the impacts of their votes and why elections matter. there are a lot of people who are seemingly still under the impression that the political propaganda we've been fed ("your reps represent you! they need to earn your vote! you vote for who speaks to you the best!") as repeat it as gospel whenever this is brought up, but I think Black people have been very well aware of how voting actually operates (and why it still matters, even if it doesn't operate as the propaganda says it should): you choose who you think will get you to your goals the easiest. you are not picking you favoritest person who makes you feel good. you're picking who you'd like to try to win in a fight against. you're picking your adversary. would you like an adversary who is going to be an easy fight, or a hard fight? who do you think you can persuade easiest to do what you want them to do? and if you don't think you can persuade them, who will ignore your efforts or stand the least in the way of your efforts? who will put up the weakest battle against what you're trying to accomplish?

the 15th amendment did not mean that suddenly Black people were nominated for the presidential or local elections. why do you think they still voted in the years following its passing, knowing they only had bad options to choose from? oppressor options to choose from? how many times were there 2 evils to choose from? 3 or 4 or 5 evils? and yet they still voted. they still fought to vote despite hardcore intimidation. because they knew it was about choosing the weakest opposition to their goals. they knew their hope for progress was likely to get pushback either way, but some of those people would put up a stronger fight than others.

THAT is the reason to vote. THAT is the simplicity of the fucking situation. and no, I'm not even a huge fan of Kamala. I take issue with many parts of her platform, but I also would be remiss to pretend that she's exactly the same as any Republican. we could've had so much progress in the next 3 years, but now we are regressing. her platform resembled Bernie's really strongly (although ik a lot of people in denial of this fact will probably disagree; that's fine, her political history shows that this is the case. she wanted like 95+% of the shit all of the people online on the left talk about wanting. we could've had labor rights and gotten closer to universal healthcare but nooooooo)

how are we supposed to trust these people to fight for us if they couldn't even do something as simple as vote? there will be plenty of hard decisions that need to be made down the road (many of which have nothing to do with voting or elections). how are we supposed to trust that they will be willing to protect as many human lives as we can? how are we supposed to trust that their egos won't get in the way?

and THIS is the part I feel like matters the most. it is the principle of it. it is because it shows a pattern of behavior that will likely repeat. it shows a betrayal of basic common sense. it shows a vulnerability for propaganda at the expense of people's lives, combined with a full lack of accountability or desire to take accountability after causing immense harm. it shows a lack of capacity and/or lack of willingness for strategic thought.

and to be quite honest there is a part of me that knows for a fact Russia in particular has been using psyop tactics to influence our elections since 2016 (and frankly likely before then as well, but 2016 has a full fucking FBI report that everyone seems to have ignored), and we know for a fact that Israel has been doing similar things on websites like twitter and 4chan (as a shit ton of accounts were shown to originate from Israel when the actual traffick was looked into, these same accounts often being on both ends of the political spectrum exactly like the Russian campaign in 2016. there were right and left polarizing bots). and a massive part of me thinks, "who benefits from leftists not voting? who benefits from Trump getting elected? which countries, specifically, would want that outcome?", and the immediate answer to that being............ yeah.

is it so implausible to think that this massive push to not vote, thereby guaranteeing a Trump victory, was itself a psyop? driven by places that really enjoy tormenting specific countries in really sadistic ways? who would probably find a lot of glee in using the exact political cause and plight of a people, in order to encourage behaviors that would basically condemn them to death? who would get off on the irony of that? maybe I'm wrong. I'm just thinking. it falls in line with so much of their behavior, though. like that is the exact type of think I'd expect that kinda mentality to produce. "hey what if we make them kill all these people but do it by convincing them that they're actually helping them". yknow. is that so far fetched? and they'd know exactly how willing white leftists are to feed into their savior complexes instead of critically thinking. it's the perfect bait because they'll just repeat it on their own with little effort. you can seed the discourse, kill all your enemies, and sit back as the useful fools dig their own graves at the same time. it is literally digging their own graves.