General Discussion

The people who want universal healthcare, housing, education, food security and full, gainful employment. The anti-imperialists, the anti-capitalists, the anti-war and anti-genocide people. The full rights for everyone people.

That’s the left. Those are the votes we should be going after. Not trying to make nice with people who stand against all of it.

It’s just fucked that the right can go as far as they want, can be as in favor of inequality, discrimination, full on laissez-faire capitalism and anti-government support for people as they want and no one bats an eye. But the second people demand better, demand basic human decency, they’re told to shut up, this is the best we can do, we have to go along to get along and all that other horseshit. That we have to serve capital, that we have to accept a certain amount of bigotry and oppression, that we have to have inadequate healthcare and education because after all, what about those poor billion dollar industries? Don’t they have a right to profit off of the misery of the “underclasses?” Don’t they have a right to put people in debt for the majority of their lives?

We have to accept a “reasonable” amount of murder and exploitation at home and around the world because a handful of people want to control the majority of the resources and sell them to us so they can have more than anyone could ever spend or use in a million lifetimes.

Doesn’t that seem fucked up to you? Does this sound like an acceptable way for things to be? Can’t we do better?

It doesn’t mean it has to happen all at once but we should at least start down the road. If there’s a party for unlimited exploitation, there has to be a party that wants none.