Totally agree, on all points. It would be amazing to see AOC come out as anti-Zionist in a presidential campaign, but I’m really just too used to electeds being a big disappointment. Doesn’t keep me from helping with campaigns, but we need to be able to build strong cadre candidates, and enforce discipline.
Getting there will be a process, and there are small pockets and opportunities appearing everywhere, more and more. And that’s what makes this work so interesting and meaningful.
Ok but consider this: what if we tried nothing in the electoral field and just got angry that all of the candidates were pro-Israel?
Jokes aside, anybody who has done anything in electoralism knows being pro-Palestine used to be a poison pill. I don’t want to say it was all electoralism, but having a handful of politicians ready to call out the Zionist entity on its genocide in Palestine was probably not insignificant in helping public opinion shift. Rallying even liberals behind anti-Zionist candidates undoubtedly helped galvanize the opinions of them and those around them
Conditions are developing rapidly. I have hope from seeing it come together, but it is still extremely fucked up and scary. Def need more people to step up and get serious.
Totally agree, on all points. It would be amazing to see AOC come out as anti-Zionist in a presidential campaign, but I’m really just too used to electeds being a big disappointment. Doesn’t keep me from helping with campaigns, but we need to be able to build strong cadre candidates, and enforce discipline.
Getting there will be a process, and there are small pockets and opportunities appearing everywhere, more and more. And that’s what makes this work so interesting and meaningful.
Ok but consider this: what if we tried nothing in the electoral field and just got angry that all of the candidates were pro-Israel?
Jokes aside, anybody who has done anything in electoralism knows being pro-Palestine used to be a poison pill. I don’t want to say it was all electoralism, but having a handful of politicians ready to call out the Zionist entity on its genocide in Palestine was probably not insignificant in helping public opinion shift. Rallying even liberals behind anti-Zionist candidates undoubtedly helped galvanize the opinions of them and those around them
Conditions are developing rapidly. I have hope from seeing it come together, but it is still extremely fucked up and scary. Def need more people to step up and get serious.