Here we are. It’s 2024 and the Trump won reelection. After a year of hearing how the fascist can’t be allowed to return to power he has done just that. And in this sordid state the “opposition” party can do nothing but blame the voting public, while saying we must now respect the fact that the man they called a fascist was elected because 15 million voters decided they were done with the hollow democratic party.

I am one of them. I voted for “stop the genocide.”

Let’s be clear, Trump is a fascist. And far too many people in the US support him. How much of that support stems from the fact that the Democratic party is hollow and facile? Remember, Roe was decided in 1973. Immediately following the decision Republicans declared their intention to see the ruling overturned. Over the following 50 years Democrats did nothing to prevent it. Filibuster proof majorities were held under Carter, Clinton, and Obama. But nothing was done.

It happened because to the Democratic party women’s bodily autonomy is simply a fund-raising tool. The same goes for our LGBTQ+ family and friends. The SCOTUS “made” gay marriage “legal”, Democrats can’t be bothered to codify it. Expect fundraising emails declaring the importance of protecting LGBTQ+ rights over the next four years, pleas which strategically omit the fact that rich fucks sat on their asses and let this happen because it didn’t effect them.

Fuck these people. It’s time for the Democratic party to fade into obscurity.

It’s time for us to take care of us.

In that vein, how does one rationalize that after declaring a fascist was running for president that the country should roll over and take what’s coming? If someone says they’re going to kill you, do you wait until they pull the trigger to defend yourself? If you see a car driving head-on towards you, do you wait until impact before maneuvering?

No gods, no masters.

“We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.”

― Ursula K. Le Guin