Another Neurodivergent Queer Writes A Blog!

Hey your neighbor didn’t vote not to do anything to you, but because neither candidate moved them at all.

And let’s be serious about Harris’ campaign. They made the move to court the right. They brought the Cheneys onto the campaign trail, one of whom was already intimately associated with violence in West Asia. Be real! The Harris campaign was downright arrogant in their dismissal of not only the Arab vote and the Muslim vote (these are not the same, since most Arab Americans aren’t Muslim and most Muslim Americans aren’t Arab), let alone the progressive vote and the left.

They didn’t need our votes, they thought, or they let themselves assume they had them despite the right-attracting policy they were proposing. They didn’t need Bernie’s 2016 strategy, the one that would’ve won against Trump and averted all of this. They were going to get the old conservative base to vote for a Californian prosecutor known nationally for her activist stances already on the come up before her 2020 primary flop.

Don’t blame anyone for not showing up for that. Who wants that? The overwhelming majority of democrats want a ceasefire now and a permanent solution in the Levant. Anytime she began to say “ceasefire now” crowds went wild. But they tended to settle right down when she only addressed the hostages taken into Gaza, not those thousands of Palestinians unlawfully detained as hostages in all but name from all across Palestine.

Let’s not pretend here. Her campaign made a strategic gamble to court the right and it blew up in their faces when the right didn’t turn out for her, since they were never going to anyway, people who wouldn’t’ve ever voted for Gore, Kerry, Obama, either Clinton or Biden—and Biden was one of them with a democrat label, which was precisely the reason Obama picked him, as a means of soothing those worried that Obama would actually bring change.

I see this election saying again that Americans are sick of the phoniness and need real change that brings them the prosperity of their parents’ generations. It’s unfortunate that so many were convinced that Trump would bring them that when he’s only ever screwed over those who’ve worked for him in so many well documented cases. But that’s what happened after Bernie didn’t get to challenge him in either 2016 or 2020. He would’ve won most all of them away from Trump the first time and at least the majority of them the second.

It isn’t that their messaging is inadequate. It’s that they are inadequate to the task at hand. No one wants the status quo platform they keep trying to sell as progress. We aren’t buying it.

Don’t blame your neighbors. Blame the bad candidates the DNC keeps hoisting into our faces.