/u/outwrangle before everything went to shit in 2020, /u/emma_lazarus for a while after that, now I’m all queermunist!
Individual persons that happen to be Black, sure.
But to characterize this as “Black voters” paints a picture that there’s some kind of large constituency of Black Trump supporters even though that’s clearly not the case. It’s a tiny minority of a minority population.
Harris has done a good job appealing to fiscal conservatives, she might have peeled some business owners away.
Down to 9% from 12% 🙄
There was never any real support among Black people.
Oh, well I just think Republicans are going to continue being fascists even when Trump is gone.
That didn’t happen last time. Instead, everyone tried to become the new Trump and take up the mantle. They failed because the real Trump was still running, but without him they’ll be able to adapt.
Although they’ll struggle to draw in voters the way Trump does. People like Trump because he’s an “outsider”. A new outsider can totally emerge to take up the mantle once Trump is not sucking all the oxygen out of the room.
Or who knows. Maybe once Trump is defeated everything will go back to normal. 👍
How did you read any of that from my comment?
I’m just pointing out that fascism doesn’t go away just because Trump is gone.
Hotter take: patents shouldn’t exist.
Trump is the most American president we’ve ever had.
And if he loses, so will the next Republican.
And the next one.
And the next one.
It’s a soft science, like psychology. You can take a scientific approach even if empiricism is more difficult.
The USSRs failure proves that their own approach was wrong. We can learn from it, because socialists learn from the material results of policy. That’s scientific.
China isn’t merely a functioning country, it’s the fastest growing economy on Earth despite being backwards and feudal and colonized only a little over half a century ago. It’s an incredible and unprecedented achievement. You can’t ignore this.
And sure, politics can’t be purely scientific, because nothing human is ever pure science, but it is possible to use a scientific approach to figure out what works and what doesn’t. This is why socialists call their politics a science.
Liberals refuse to even attempt to make their politics scientific. They believe politics is just about doing what you think is right based on faith i.e. moralism.
Except if you look at China today it clearly worked. It’s an evidence based scientific approach to politics. No faith necessary.
Meanwhile, religious people can’t prove anything and have no evidence for anything and have to take everything on faith.
I never claimed they’re peaceful. They want to kill settlers and IDF goons and they want to destroy the Israeli occupation. Hardly peaceful.
But that’s not genocide. That’s just people’s war.
You honestly think citizens should be publicly punished and shamed for purely strategic reasons? I somehow don’t believe that.
I think Party members should be disciplined and forced to follow the Party line. Regular citizens who aren’t involved with politics shouldn’t be held to the same standards. If you want to be member of the Communist Party then you must subject yourself to the democratic center.
They don’t really hold every single Chinese citizen to the same standards as Party members these days. It’s unnecessary.
Sounds like a moral imperative to me tbh
It’s strategic because the goal is to advance the Party agenda. A moral imperative is just saying it’s the right thing to do, but that’s not what democratic centralism is about. It’s a strategy to hold Party members to a Party line and advance the Party’s agenda.
You’re trying to frame this as moralism but it has nothing to do with right or wrong. It’s about what works.
It’s strategic, not moral. The Communist Party of China has 99 million members. Without democratic centralism it would just be a big club of communism fans, not a Party.
Once there’s an agreed upon decision, every Party member must uphold it for the strategic advancement of the Party agenda.
Words mean things. 😜
Okay, so, I think I understand your confusion.
I am not proposing pacifism. Violence and so-called “authoritarianism” aren’t inherently fascist. Fascism is a specific political project.
Harris spent her whole campaign trying to win over Republicans! The campaign strategy was to take the Dem base for granted and focus solely on people who are swayed by the likes of Liz Cheney.