Violent Partisanship in All Unjust & Oppresssive Hierarchy
October 21st, 2020 | Published in General
We claim to be equal
Yet history shows the opposite
Who’s Vote Counts?
Who’s Life Matters?
Are we even standing on equal ground?
“I wanted to point out the tradition of violence, partisan violence, specifically partisan violence, in this country.
And people don’t know that in the 1850s the American Party, better known as the Know-Nothings, eliminated entire populations from voting contention. People just knew that if you came out to vote, you would be attacked.” – Jelani Cobb on Democracy Now, 10/20/2020
This is supposedly the “Land of the Free”
and yet broken treaties remain
The Democratic Party has made a clear stance on how they feel:
It sues to keep diverse choices off ballots
along with defending the status quo as extreme centrists
While a raging turf war persists on progressives’ and centrists
Reformism will not solve these dire issues
Like “Anarcho”-Capitalists attempting to kidnap governors
Vote so liberals can’t scapegoat non-voters
Presidents do performative stunts to win elections
Clinton lost because she didn’t play the card well
In fact neither of them did
The attention economy influences our choices
whoever gets the most eyes to view them wins
and inequality is a natural part the system
Vote to prove that scapegoating the most vulnerable won’t work by taking 5 minuets to mail in a ballot
and do 365 days of direct action after that
for real change
and for a better world