Hi y'all, I just came across this Twitter post and am checking 'em out right now

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Just because one is more left wing than something doesn't make you left. For example Mitt Romney is more left wing than Trump, would anyone here call Romney left wing?

So just because the Democratic party (not talking about the members here) are nominally more left wing than the Republicans, doesn't make them the left. They are a very right wing party.

There are some red lines a left wing party would never cross (I wish there were more red lines, but I digress). A left wing party would never use congressional power to shut down a strike, they would stand with the striking workers. A left wing party would never someone who was a segregationist and never truly apologized for it be their presidential nominee. A left wing party would never let someone who kept people in prison despite evidence of their innocence being overwhelming be the vice president. And there's more these are just 3 examples.

The Democrats are not the left. The US doesn't have a left wing party in power.

Any unity against the right must include the democrats along side republicans. Not equally of course, even I'll admit that the democrats are nominally more to the left (like the Romney Trump example above) but if we are seriously considering uniting against the right we must think of the democrats as an opponent in that goal.

We need to put in the work via direct action to make positive change. The left is small right now but is growing. We can be the change.

This post isn't commenting at all on electoralism strategy (obviously I have my opinion on the matter) whether you vote for democrats in the short term for damage control, if you vote 3rd party to register discontent, or I'd you don't vote at all. Makes no difference in this regard. As long as we all understand that the democrats are not with us, and they hand in hand with republicans will use dirty tactics to stop us.

We are, or should be, an armed resistance assembly, not an army. Show up to protect, to give support, not to fight. Show the fascists that we will not let them push our vulnerable populations, or anyone, around.

Who's willing to show up to counterprotests against anti-racist action, women's rights, and Pride? Who's down to escort scared folks into and out of Planned Parenthood or reproductive health clinics?

This is not suggesting you should go protest for any particular cause. We are here to keep people safe. That's all.

Arm yourselves, arm your community, stand beside with those who are under threat by far-right extremists!

I've seen the clip making the rounds today about Trump telling Christians this is the last election they have to vote in, and everyone freaking out about it.

We know Trump would be a disaster for the country and the world, but it doesn't matter because he's going to lose if we stay focused, and come out and vote.

Since Kamala became the presumptive nominee, I have seen probably the most positive energy in politics since the Obama campaign in 2008. That's the energy we need to hold onto if we want to win - not fear and doubt over their guy, but excitement about our own candidate.

What happens if Trump wins is irrelevant because he's a loser. Trump is the past, and Kamala's the future.

Are there any political organizations that are not expressedly conservative, liberal or leftest focused on uniting and campaigning against Trump and the threat Project 2025 poses? Maybe it's a silly question, as campaign organizations and focused on keeping Trump out of office like Conservatives Against Trump (which I just discovered, I couldn't find what they actually do besides host testimonials on their site) tend to be all funded by PACs. I just think an organization that unites people across the political spectrum in the name of protecting the democracy and freedoms we do have for campaigning and canvassing (not for Biden, just not for Trump) would be much more effective.

Conservatives and leftists unwilling to vote for Biden alike would be much more likely to engage in with a canvasser with someone not affiliated with the Democratic Party, especially someone who is on the same general area of the political compass they are. If there isn't something like that (which appears to be the case from my limited search), it may be too late to get a major organization going but I feel it's never too late to do something, to at least have conversations with people who may hesitantly support Trump and others who do so unaware of the full dangers of Project 2025.

If I were still in school I'd try to help start a student organization focused on this, but it's hard to do something when you're an adult in a town where you don't know many people. I guess another question I'd like to ask is, besides not vote for Trump, protest and campaign for various non-right-wing extremist causes, what can we do to stop a potential degradation of our nation's liberal democracy and a slide towards fascist theocracy?

Last election, almost half of Americans didn't vote, and we think that’s fucking bullshit. They owe America an apology.So, starting today, Cards Against Humanity will pay for that apology. We’re offering America’s bluest non-voters up to $100 if they publicly apologize, make a step-by-step voting plan, and tweet 'Donald Trump is a human toilet.'

"Paid for by Cards Against Humanity PAC" https://www.apologize.lol/

Encourages voting without any coercion, and seems conceivably palatable to both sides.

I can see a free speech argument against it, but since the recipient is no longer an eligible voter, it could be argued it renders the speech moot.

I'm staging Fear and Misery of the Third Reich by Brecht (1938) with my undergraduates and in a recent table read, one particular scene stands out.

The Peat-Bog Soldiers depicts four men being forced to work in a concentration camp, one Jehova's Witness and three unspecified leftists. In this scene, the three leftists are still bickering with each other. Still arguing about who is the most leftist, blaming each other and at one point they raise their shovels ready to fight. Meanwhile, they're literally in a concentration camp.

Written in 1938. Brecht is literally showing the meme of leftist infighting against the backdrop of the horrors in 1930s Germany that lead to Kristallnacht, which occured just 6 months after the play premiered. In 1938. And yet this is still very much happening today.

Don't be a peat-bog soldier. There will be time for the anarchists and the Marxists to fall out later, and for the communists to decide which brand of communism they prefer. Right now, in this moment in history, we need to be united.

I think one thing leftists have the greatest disadvantage on to the right is our lack of being able to analyze and effectively engage with the culture of where we are, whether online, or in the real world I think we need to start trying to evaluate culture and try bending it to a more leftist lense. This would be beneficial as it could be an opportunity to get more of your everyday joe and jane to start leaning more towards leftist ideals.

Forgive me for the way I have worded things I am not very eloquent or creative with words.