Another Neurodivergent Queer Writes A Blog!

Americans’ political stances are laid out on a one-dimensional axis: “left” center right far-right. Ok, but this is not representative of the reality. That straight line connects at both ends: the situation is better (but not best) depicted as the circumference of a circle, not a line.

Because those voters who swelled into Trump’s cult? Bernie would have won most of them. Why? Because both of them are populists, ie claim to be concerned about us, the People. And Bernie would have won because authenticity always wins over trumpery (yes, that’s a word already, centuries old, and yes you should totally use it too lol). We love a good show, but we are desperate for authentic connection.

So AOC is asking her constituents how those who voted for Trump could have also voted for her, and the answers show that what is missing in this country is a robust democratic populist communalist party.

Do I need to remind anyone that the DNC has swung to the right enough to get into bed with Dick Cheney?? Harris was advocating for an immigration-halting/border-wall bill that even the establishment’s beloved Reagan did not support. It’s gross. Even if there had been no direct acute Israeli genocide of the Palestinians, and just the normal everyday apartheid and siege, that border bill was reprehensible enough to give at least me tremendous pause.

And by the way, if the Biden administration had taken Trump to be such a serious threat, the department of justice shouldn’t have been stalling the investigation. The reason Trump faces no accountability for the coup he attempted to pull off is precisely because the cases were delayed by the Justice Department—this being only one more unforgivable thing the Biden administration has done among a heap of others.

A FAR BETTER DEPICTION OF THE US ELECTORATE plots the chart on many dimensions, without labels like republican or democrat. There is an authoritarian—democratic axis; an elitist—populist axis; an individualist—communalist axis (by which I mean, basically, bootstraps logic or community-thinking)… there are almost definitely others we could/should plot. The result is a complex multidimensional constellation of voters from which it is then possible to better understand, even predict, how they will vote.

What we would find, were we to plot this out, is that the majority of voters are populists. Republicans heard that and they ran with it: they ‘got out ahead of it’ in other words by addressing people with a populist preamble before ambling on to misdirect the cause of our problems onto immigrants and any other vulnerable minority group. ‘I know you’re suffering’ and it’s the truth, but then they say, ‘but it’s the immigrants stealing jobs!’ or ‘but it’s those trans kids!’ And there’s no counter narrative. There isn’t much of anyone to say, ‘No you’re the reason we can’t afford groceries, you and the other billionaires hoarding our wealth.’

And when Bernie does step up again and tell the obvious truth, that the DNC has abandoned the working class, here comes Nancy Pelosi in a delusional frenzy declaring he’s wrong and that ‘we are the working class!’ in one of the most self-deluding spectacles I have so far heard. (And by the way, get a load of the way Pelosi has to pause before she says Harris’ whole name, like it’s a foreign word she doesn’t want to mess up so she can show that she ‘gets it,’ she’s SeNsItIvE, downright multicultural, while entirely denying their own strategic failures! If that isn’t a perfect encapsulation of the entire problem, I don’t know what is.) And of course the chair of the DNC reacted by saying it’s “just straight up BS”.

There was a strong showing for Obama, then Bernie’s tide was rising before he was shut out, so the showing went to Trump, then AOC… people need change. The only elitists left in the US are elites themselves and those deluding themselves into believing they’re part of the elite. So few working people are easily fooled by the cheap gimmicks of most DNC-establishment candidates, gimmicks intended to maintain the status quo but to sell it to us in a way that we consent to our own exploitations. I do not consent, and I am hopeful that many more people will refuse their continued consent in the next four years. We need a working people’s party, and I have a slim hope suddenly that we might be about to build one.

Anyway none of this makes sense in a linear plot left or right. Either circle that line, or else plot it out on a more representative multidimensional diagram.