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I guess I just don’t really get why there should be any resistance to do this when the whole point of BDS or organizing is to eventually put us in this exact position. We got lucky with the House margins and if we don’t do this now there are no opportunities in the foreseeable future.

I’m saying there is an actual real option here beyond just shouting at the injustice in the world. You have people who can cause meaningful harm to the president’s agenda. You also have orgs who’s denouncements would cause meaningful harm to the fundraising and reputations of the people with that power. If organizing isn’t to exploit opportunity like this then what is it for?

I mean the left isn’t really helpless here for once. It would only take a couple of the left’s people in the House to publicly say they are not going to pass any of Biden’s legislation unless he stops supporting this. If they refuse to block Biden in the house the left orgs like the DSA could publicly withdraw their endorsements of the squad. There isn’t really much need to bother with the superficial stuff when the left has a power play on the table if it really cares about any of this beyond a branding level.

because the woke left shift was a result of the 80s and 90s left failing so horribly. now because the current left has burnt through hundreds of millions only to stall out the process is happening again. the dirtbag left was always mostly white so this is how the shift appears in them, but the broader rejection crosses identity lines since it is driven by the fact people need things like healthcare and the existing left is too corrupt and alienating to make progress toward providing it.

it is not so much class reductionism as the left needing to realize there are consequences to failure and you can’t stay in the build up stage indefinitely. self sabotaging political campaigns, aimless organizational strategy, millions of dollars being tossed down a hole, etc. this is how the status quo has failed to justify itself. this is why that status quo is being abandoned.