2024 Election: Eulogy and Clarity. What is to be done?

Unf*cking The Republic

UNFTR Media

Government, News, Politics

4.9 • 683 Ratings

🗓️ 16 November 2024

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Today we offer a grim and final eulogy to the Democratic Party and the 2024 election. The results were foretold by countless DNC missteps and missed opportunities that the Party remains reluctant to admit to. The next stage in the American experiment is going to be dire and regressive, leaving progressives with two options to move forward: Succumb to the forces of authoritarian rule guided by the corporate class, or build a plan to take control of our democracy after they burn it to the ground. We’re exiting the neoliberal phase of our journey and entering what Stanley Deetz termed “corporate colonialism.” In order to build a strong coalition to jumpstart a new progressive movement, it’s imperative that we focus our efforts on decolonizing America.

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0:00.0	You ready on fuckers?
0:02.0	This is going to be a long one.
0:04.3	No clips, no music bed, no ha-haz, just an election diagnosis, and then a call to arms
0:12.0	in a way forward, a manifesto of sorts.
0:15.6	Now, most people won't have the patience for this, but hopefully you do.
0:19.6	So here we go.
0:22.7	Let's start by putting a fork in the election because it's done and we're cooked. So this episode is just a straight read with no
0:29.5	flourish, as I said, no outrage or even bitterness. And what we will do is diagnose the problems
0:35.9	facing the left and establish our new baseline to move forward.
0:40.4	I'm going to tie up some loose ends from the prior themes to speak to what we've learned together,
0:44.6	but I'm also going to read from Roshed Mion's post-election essay from Newsbeat,
0:48.8	because it's perhaps the most direct and authentic summary of events that I've read thus far.
0:53.5	Then we'll talk about our strategy
0:54.9	moving forward. After the last newsletter, I got an email from a longtime unfucker and good
1:00.8	friend of the show, Stephen S, saying, quote, if you want to unfuck the Republic, maybe get off
1:06.1	your high horse and stop pretending you actually know what's going to happen or have a fucking
1:10.7	plan.
1:11.7	You don't, or I would see it here.
1:14.5	Hand-waving about resistance isn't a plan.
1:17.9	So, honestly, it's a pretty valid critique.
1:21.4	What I was trying to do in the newsletter was shake our audience out of a state of despair
1:25.6	by declaring the time for mourning over. But he's right.
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