2022 Election Gives Us Chance to Stop Authoritarian Fascism
Just a quick post, because I see a lot of Leftist People who resent voting Blue in 2022. Here’s what I have to say:
There’s One Big Difference
There is one huge difference between the Democratic Party and the GOP. The Democratic Party is not completely sold out to an elite corporate oligarchy. There is a noncorporate progressive faction in the Democratic Party.
This noncorporate progressive faction may not appear to get much done, but that is because Big Money blocks and punishes them. Big Money is ultra-powerful, and it doesn’t give a fig about regular people or American democracy. Big Money welcomes a corporate fascist state.
Never the less, noncorporate progressive Members of Congress are very important.
People should be in the streets 24/7, fighting for stronger rights and for democratic reforms. When we put pressure on elected officials to do the right thing, we’re not just calling them out to vilify them. No. What we are actually doing is empowering our noncorporate progressives. When the Establishment Dems look at those progressive Members of Congress, they should see an endless horde of angry voters, who demand justice, standing right behind them. Then they know that they have to sacrifice a few drops from the gravy train, if they want their political careers to survive.
Rinse and repeat. Stand up and demand progress over and over and over—to make progress, even if it’s a little at a time. That is the people-power that good elected officials, those who are trying to do the right thing, need to have behind them—in order to be effective.
Bernie Sanders put it succintly: “Not me, us.”
Vote Blue in 2022
The noncorporate progressive faction makes it worthwhile to work on crucially necessary changes from within the Democratic Party. Until we establish democratic reforms, such as Ranked Choice Voting and Publicly-Funded Elections, working from within the Democratic Party is the ONLY way for The People to have an impact.
Speaking of democratic reforms, they are the primary reason to vote Blue in 2022. With a progressive toehold in Congress, and people-power amassed on the outside, we can push through democracy-loving legislative changes. That’s how we’ll get meaningful climate action and protect human rights. That’s how we’ll get free public college and universal healthcare. That’s how we restore voting rights and elect third-party candidates.
That’s why it is so important to vote Blue in 2022. The true Left needs to live another day, to keep that toehold in Congress—and to keep fighting the Good Fight, over and over and over. If we don’t stop the radicalized, white-nationalist, fascist Far-Right from overtaking the country, democracy is dead and people-power is over.
Talk to your nonpolitical friends, Independents, and normal conservative Republicans. Explain what is going on. Explain what they could lose, if we lose democracy: women’s rights, LGBTQ+ equalty, Social Security and Medicare, worker protections, and voting rights. And if nationalist extremists were to take full power, white people would no longer be safe. Any white person who publicly stood for equality and democracy could easily be targeted, like anti-racist protester Heather Heyer, who was run down by a car and killed at a 2017 white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. Most potential violence would probably come from lone terrorists, but militia groups would unofficially patrol the populace and people would be afraid to speak out for justice.
Much hangs in the balance. The United States faces two fascist forces. One is the corporate grip on American politics and governance. The second is a white and/or Christian nationalist movement that aims to take over the United States politically, or by force. The 2022 Election gives us a chance to stop one fascist threat: an authoritarian takeover of the United States.
Stay strong!