A small business owner who voted for Donald Trump recently posted a video on TikTok, pleading for help as crushing tariffs on China threatened to bankrupt his operation, which imports alloy wheels. His call for support, however, drew little sympathy from some fellow Americans.
“Votes have consequences,” he was told, with many comments from Twitter/X users relishing the notion that another MAGA voter was suffering because of their political choice. The backlash prompted a second video from the man, in which he dropped several F-bombs while criticizing the apparent heartlessness of those celebrating his hardship.
or focus on building a real and viable opposition to the democrats?
you can suck this guys dick all you want, but it wont make chuck schumer and the rest of the corporate democrats with a strangle hold on the party any less cancerous.
Absolutely we need to build resistance communities beyond electoral politics. This involves building solidarity across the working class. That includes people who have voted republican. They are not your true enemies. Your true enemies are the ruling class, i.e. billionaires and corporations.
Most republican voters are not die-hard nazis, many of them are mislead, manipulated and gaslighted their entire lives, including by their parents. You could have been one too, but by the coincidence of your birth.
I’m not saying people should go out of their way to offer sympathy and compassion, I’m just saying that kicking someone while they’re down achieves nothing at all. That’s their kind of tactics - bullying, harassment, etc.
By the way, you might want to remove the casual homophobia from your vocabulary, that’s also pretty counterproductive towards building solidarity.
This sympathy was absent every last time the left gets blamed for the way this shithead voted.
Are you going to use the right wing and centrists acting like shitheads as an excuse to behave that way yourself?
Are you ever going to show any sympathy at all for the left?
They’re actually willing to vote with you if the party ever listens to them. This guy never will.
The party will never listen to them, that’s the entire point behind my whole argument. Voting isn’t going to get us out of this mess. We need to organize the working class, build solidarity, and build a people-powered movement to abolish capitalism.
Oh. NOW I get it. You want something even less likely than democrats listening to the left.
Democrats will never listen to the left. They are a party by, and for, the ruling class.
I know it feels unlikely that we can achieve change through revolution, but that’s how capitalism wins, by making you feel like it is impossible to defeat.
With the allies you’re seeking, I distrust the revolution you want. Seems like that revolution already happened and the guy whose allyship you want is griping about the results while still supporting it.