Marco Rogers
I agree with this for the most part. Over institutions need to be overhauled. The "checks and balances" are just fundamentally broken. Maybe they always have been.
But this also gave me another thought about political theories of change. I wonder if part of the problem is that Democrats actually want a "unity". But they won't accept that the other side doesn't actually want that at all. Regardless of whatever lip service they give.
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Marco Rogers
One way to think of a political platform that seeks "unity" is this.
Try to give every constituency *something* they want. That plus *their desire to unify* will convince them to come into the coalition even if it's not perfect.
This definition explains why Democratic platforms always find ways to give concessions to right wingers. It also explains why it'll never work with the current incarnation of the right wing. They literally have no desire for unity. They want dominance.
Marco Rogers
If the Democratic party was able to accept that core truth, I think they would have a very different strategy for winning elections. I think their platform and policies would adjust accordingly. Folks like @mekkaokereke have been talking about this in detail for a long time. What if you just accepted that you don't have any influence with white conservatives, and instead you leaned into your actual base and sought to grow it from the inside? What if you just win by having more people than them?
Marco Rogers
The word fascism is actually hard to wrap your head around. And in true fashion, people tend to flatten and intellectualize it. Fascism isn't useful without context. It's just a tool. It's about control. The right wing seeks to control the growing culture changes that threaten to destroy their patriarchal and white supremacist hierarchies of powers. They are terrified of us. And fascism promises to help them with that.
Marco Rogers
A lot of the political class assume that conservative voters were looking for permission not to vote for Trump. And we just had to find the right way to make them feel comfortable with that. But that was just never really the case.
It's not about Trump himself. The reality is that the right wing is actually convinced that *we* are just as big an existential a threat to their way of life. They feel the same way we do. They're not voting for Trump. They are voting against us.
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