“Voting your conscience” is a bourgeois individualist
concept, to use old words. True though: the bourgeoisie is the ruling class.
Capitalism is their thing and supremacy of the individual is their ideology. I
don’t mean to make you feel bad, but voting is a tactical decision within an electoral strategy. And strategy is a plan to achieve…what? That’s the big
question. What do we want?
I know what I want. I want a society that values the well-being
of people and of the planet above its individualism, it’s profit. I support
these three demands:
- End all wars immediately and disarm all nations and peoples
- Move aggressively toward complete equality – economic, social, and racial – of all people in the world
- End exploitation of labor and the earth’s resources. Take aggressive steps to reverse global warming.
Is that asking too much?
Building an international movement to advance these demands
would be a good strategy. With the internet, this shouldn’t be so hard to do.
Of course one might want to support the candidate for president in the U. S.
who is least likely to disrupt the internet. Mind you they both might fuck with
it. But Clinton would be more easily influenced. That’s a tactical approach. It has nothing to do with conscience or
individual revulsion for corruption.
Another strategic objective is the defeat of white supremacy
to unite the working class. So we have
to choose between two candidates. The third and fourth one, great though they
may be, are not viable. IMHO efforts would be better spent demanding a
one-person-one vote system that would allow for meaningful third parties.
That’s not a value judgement. That’s a tactical
question. Which candidate do you think will give the most encouragement to
the white supremacist movement?
So I don’t care who you vote for. Voting is pretty much of a
sham anyway, as has recently been revealed even as we’ve really known it all
along. What I care about is if you’re are making your decisions based on an
understanding of where you think we should be going – collectively – and the most effective strategy and tactics for getting
there.
I have no great love for Hillary. I am not making the decision
to vote for her out of fear of Trump. I base my decision on my judgement of
the best strategy for us to get
toward a human-centered society. Under the regime of which candidate will it be
easier to organize the working class toward that goal?
The advance guard of our movement is Black Lives Matter and
its associated groupings. We best listen to them. One of the founders of Black
Lives Matter, Malkia Cyril (who figures prominently in the new Ava DuVernay movie “13th”) puts it this way:
“I'm not with her. I'm not
with him. They're not with me. I think it's important to be clear about that. I
am with us, and act from that place.
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