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No I'm not; quite the opposite in fact. Some people did try something, but they were met with either inaction, ridicule or straight up derision. Again, my problem isn't with the people who said "it's too late" in October; I can sympathize with that view. My problem is for the people who kept saying some combination of "it's too late we can't do anything" and "lalala I can't hear you" when it was, in fact, not too late. Opposition to the Gaza genocide is almost as old as the genocide itself, and the Uncommitted/Listen to Michigan Movement got going before the Michigan primary in February. My problem with Americans is that, faced with this golden opportunity to catch the Democrats by the balls and demand real change, the best they could do was "hold your nose and vote for her". An anti-fascist movement that doesn't have it in it to effectively object to genocide isn't an anti-fascist movement; it's an anti-fascism-if-it-affects-me movement. For scale, the Spanish planned an honest to goodness general strike when their government didn't go as far as they wanted in its opposition to Israel.
I'm not being flippant or trying to be sarcastic (I know tone doesn't carry online), but wasn't the act of not voting/withholding votes supposed to be the opportunity for real change? Wasn't that the "threat" (couldn't think of a better term). Like, "Because you're not agreeing to xyz, I am withholding my vote." Isn't the current time line the result of that success, when it came to telling people to not vote as a form of protest anyway.
And if you sympathize with people in October who said "it's too late," what's the difference between that and "it's too late, we can't do anything (right now)?" I think those two groups are the same people in a way.
No. A success there would be for significant numbers of Democrat voters to form a united nationwide and loudly declare that they're not voting blue until XYZ (not necessarily only Gaza-related) demands are met. People just quietly not voting is the worst possible scenario, as it gives anti-fascist/anti-fascism-if-it-affects-me forces the illusion of victory only to hand fascists power.
The difference is that they could have done things then and simply chose not to because they didn't want to rock the boat. Also I'm sympathizing with positions here, not with people. If person A said "nope, can't do shit now" in August and also October then I have no sympathy for them even if I agree with them to an extent in the latter case.
I have no rebuttal. I'm in agreement with the idea that it should have been a movement. I was taking it as people saying "if you voted for Harris, you're okay with genocide." I get the "hold your nose a vote" thing now.
Nice talking with you and thank you for being cordial. 🤝🏾