By Wade Tate
How many elections have been “the most important election of our lifetimes”? How many vapid, performative placations have stood in for solid, lasting change? And how many things should have happened that never did?
In 50 years, Roe vs. Wade was never codified. An oversight? No.
Liberalism is the ratchet effect, meant to keep people from moving too far to the left, so capitalism can dance further into imperialism at the height, and fascism in the decay. It is still ran by capitalists, for whom stratification is not a bug, but a design feature.
Otherness, coming in the form of race, nationality, gender, and especially economic standing, paints a target for exploitation, and dehumanization. This is either not seen for what it is, or deliberate. Either way? It is complicity in the systemic violence against the people.
You may ask, “violence?” Yes. Whether direct (such as police brutality and murder, tolerance for hate, etc.), or indirect (such as allowing homelessness, hunger, disease, gentrification, revocation of bodily autonomy, etc.), it is a cornerstone to capitalism.
We are told that the performative action of voting is the way out of it, but even if their interests were aligned? It’s a distant “promise” of a solution to (quite frequently) immediate needs. It just doesn’t hold water for the people in imminent danger, now. Yet, as pointed out, their goals are not aligned with the needs of the people. We do not have representation.
It has been pointed out that this is what we have. Yes, because the people continue to merely accept it from a place of “what else can we do?” Instead, how about listening to the people who are actively working to change things. Literally, it is the people not realizing their unified power that keeps the status quo, favoring the whims of the “elite few” over the needs of the many. It is time to come together, and take our world back. To recreate a better place for us all to live.
