I always find that many of the moderates who want to compromise with the GOP fail to see how the oppressed suffer. A moderate approach didn't end legalized slavery in America or legalized Jim Crow. Therefore, centrism definitely won't end the pandemic crisis or massive economic inequality in America. These moderates scream about socialism, but many of them don't know the definition of socialism (they definitely don't know that many socialists fought for civil rights, an increase of a minimum wage, and environmental protections). Many of them scream about not wanting to defund the police without understanding the critically needed services that communities need. It is the height of naivete to assume that Democrats can compromise with Mitch McConnell and do true justice for humanity. The far right extremists are committing terrorism in America, and many Republicans are refusing to acknowledge the election results, but some want us to coddle these extremists. No, they deserve no coddling. They deserve to be told the truth, so they can change. If they refuse to change, then we can move forward with progressive agendas whether they like it or not. Mitch McConnell received donations from voting machine lobbyists before blocking election security bills. While this is going on, Mitch refuses to support a new pandemic relief bill in Congress. It is a disgrace that moderates are launching a campaign against progressives, but the reactionary extremists, not progressives, are responsible for the things that we witness now. Congresswoman Lauren Underwood won her Senate race again, and that is good news. Some moderates are more concerned with corporate appeasement than black liberation. Many of them are more concerned than being half way sleep instead of fully woke to reality and truth. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. wrote that the large reason why he struggled to get solutions was because of moderates who wanted the status quo instead of freedom plus justice.
Now, people are still fighting for universal healthcare in America when every industrialized nation on Earth has some form of it. The issue of our time doesn't deal with slogans. It has to do with some people who are obsessed with privilege and hatred of revolutionary solutions. For years, people have told the truth that grassroots organizing in local communities, running issue based campaigns, and electing great people who can make a difference in their communities will work. Stacey Abrams of Georgia did these actions, and this caused Georgia to be blue. Abrams and others registered voters, fought voter suppression actions, built a ground game to help communities, and inspired a 50 state strategy in trying to get results. Another myth is that we can't get anything done if the majority of people oppose our views. Back in the 1963 March on Washington, polls show that a majority of Americans disagreed with the agenda of the march. In 1968, a majority of Americans opposed Dr. Martin Luther King's anti-war, and pro-Poor People's Campaign views. Therefore, polls don't define truth, and even a majority of people can be wrong at times. What is important is to inspire change and make that change happen. If we want freedom, we have to struggle and fight for it. Everyone knows that Biden isn't perfect, but we have to refute the lie that Biden and Trump are equivalent. Trump supports a Muslim ban. Biden doesn't. Trump supports tax payer funded of Confederate racist statues in America. Biden doesn't agree with that. Trump doesn't even agree with the concept of Black Lives Matter. Biden disagrees with that and said Black Lives Matter. Trump has a cabinet and appointed people who are overt racists or overt far right extremists.
Biden's advisers are black people, Latino people, and progressive people more progressive than him. Trump doesn't agree with a federal increase of the minimum wage (not even by one cent). Biden agrees with an increase of the federal minimum wage. Trump has glorified neo-Confederates and neo-Nazis at Charlottesville, Virginia. Trump has glorified far right militias who stormed the Michigan capitol with semiautomatic weapons in trying to intimidate the Michigan Governor (some of them were arrested for plotting to kidnap the Governor), but Biden has condemned these white racist terrorists explicitly and from the beginning. Trump doesn't want an public expansion of health care. Biden agrees with a public option. Trump has allowed authorities to separate families at the border (ripping babies from their mother's' arms). Biden has criticized that action as cruel and inhuman, and Biden is right. Biden agrees with the existence of climate change and wants the Paris Climate Accords to be re-implemented in America, but Trump has questioned climate change (and he has opposed the Paris Climate Accords). Therefore, a centrist like Biden is better than a far right extremist than Trump. The battle is not over. We still have to disagree with imperialism, poverty, neo-liberal policies, ecological destruction, and other evils. The majority of Americans voted Trump out of office. Trump being out of office on January 20, 2021 is a good thing. Yet, we are willing and able to establish victory which includes justice for all.
Now, the 2 Georgia runoff elections will happen by January of 2021. People are going all in, because the winners of those elections will determine whether Democrats will dominate the Senate or not. Rev. Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff are running against David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler. Perdue and Loeffler have used red baiting disinformation against their Democratic opponents. The truth is that there is nothing evil about health care for all, about wanting an end to racial injustice, or wanting people to have a living wage. Perdue and Loeffler support a racist and habitual liar who is Donald Trump, but they hypocritically lecture others on democracy and morality. That is why progressive activists are turning out the vote to make sure that the GOP won win the Senate. We don't desire McConnell's obstructionism or token compromise to the status quo. We desire a transformation of the whole structure of society where human beings can be free from oppression. Another fact is that we are the majority. Over 74 million Americans voted to end Trumpism, to form coalition, to stand up for working class plus poor people, and desire a true change for America. We are dealing with diverse issues like health care, economics, immigration, the climate crisis, race, policing, health care, the pandemic, education, and other topics. That is certainly all the justification for us to establish progressive solutions in strengthening democracy.
Trump is trying to use a coup d'etat in trying to overthrow the legal results of the 2020 election that made him no longer President in 2021. He will fail, but we should know of his tactics now. Trump is allied with Republican leaders McConnell and Graham to deny that he lost the election. Trump inspired Republicans in Georgia to call for the secretary of state of Georgia to resign, because Georgia is blue now. Trump's Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, denied that Biden won the election too. Trump has refused the Biden transition team to get daily briefings. Tons of courts have denied Trump's lie that there is massive voting fraud in America. Also, Trump has praised and agitated far right militias groups (when many of them have enacted terrorism against the American people. Hate crimes are up since 2016). Trump fired Defense Secretary Mark Esper after Esper criticized Trump for using troops against peaceful protesters in Washington, D.C. months ago (which is immoral and illegal). We should always defend our democratic rights. Now, we witness that numerous Trump followers have acted in a cultic fashion. By 2021, we can see a new President, who is Joe Biden, and a new Vice-President, who is Kamala Harris, take over.
By Timothy
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