Excerpt - Richard Seymour on Yemen, Gaza, and voting for "Genocide Joe"
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Politics Theory Other
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🗓️ 20 January 2024
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| 0:00.0 | So what do we do next? I mean, if I were in the United States, I would probably not be contemplating a nationwide electoral challenge at this point. I think I would be a waste of energy. I wouldn't be opposed to throwing a boat to a left-wing candidate, but I wouldn't lift a finger for the Democrats, barring a handful of pro-Palestine candidates who deserve to defeat their APAC-enabled challengers. |
| 0:21.8 | Biden's re-election is his problem. Our problem is organizing against whoever wins. So if Trump |
| 0:27.2 | wins, we need there to be a movement that he can't shut down, no matter what Attorney General |
| 0:31.7 | he appoints, and no matter what federal paramilitary forces he deploys, and no matter what lone |
| 0:36.3 | wolf for militia violence, |
| 0:37.7 | he sticks on the movement. And as for who to vote for in the presidential, I would simply |
| 0:42.6 | treat that as not your problem, or certainly not your biggest problem. Practically, most voters |
| 0:47.5 | don't live in swing states. So if the Democrats can't give you a good reason to vote for them |
| 0:51.5 | other than keep Trump out, they haven't earned your vote. |
| 0:58.2 | And if you do live in a swing state and you feel there's some strategic margin in throwing the Democratic vote, I won't gainsay it, but don't let that decision be based on moral |
| 1:03.4 | blackmail and don't suppose that the electoral cycle is the most important front line right |
| 1:08.3 | now. I'd focus on contributing to the movements that will in the medium to long term |
| 1:12.6 | change the electoral options and change the wider political terrain. |
| 1:17.6 | And if the Democrats lose, I simply would not take any shit from them. |
| 1:20.6 | I'd say learn your lesson. |
| 1:22.6 | If you want to run with a terrible candidate who's just led the country into a moral cesspool, |
| 1:26.6 | you deserve |
| 1:27.5 | to lose. And we will resist Trump as we did before without you. And last thing, we always |
| 1:33.5 | have to bear in mind how majorities are made. If you were to make the Gaza struggle a campaign |
| 1:38.6 | about whether to vote for Biden, you would split the movement. You know, ceasefire now is |
| 1:43.6 | efficacious because unlike any other |
| 1:45.9 | number of ways of putting the issue, it reliably commands the support of the majority. Most |
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