I'm going to start here by making an awkward confession, particularly for an anarchist who wants to smash the state and end capitalism, so that you know everything I'm about to say is sincere and from the heart. After the 2020 Democratic National Convention, I had some small degree of hope for organized American liberalism. To be sure, I remained suspicious that an old dog like Joe Biden could learn new tricks, but with a Party Platform denouncing the carceral state and racialized police violence, promising an end to forever wars and regime change policies, to reduce military budgets, pledging an end to Trump-era fascist immigration policies and an expansion of the asylum system, offering increased action on climate crisis, and a promise to vigorously defend trans rights, plus what at least appeared to me a pledge to condition U.S. financial support and arms salves to Gulf states on increased respect for human rights, I allowed myself to believe that just maybe, U.S. liberals as exemplified by the Democratic Party were taking baby steps toward justice, equality, and the proverbial "right side of history."

Of course I mention all this in the past tense because after just under four years of the Biden presidency, and this year's DNC gathering, I no longer have the ability to delude myself about any such hopes for American liberalism. While everyone around me was squealing in approval over the "joy" and "unity" on display, the DNC I saw represented a cynical, realpolitik-style commitment to genocide, the carceral industrial complex, and the appeasement of imperialists, nativists, and other fascists that brought the party back to the dark days of Clintomism; even though the political moment, and the ideals of their own voters have long since left those politics behind. This was no triumph, it was a surrender to the right on so many levels it made my heart hurt, and dashed my (already quite low) expectations for a likely Harris presidency before that administration even exists.

As I've already written, the degree of surrender the 2024 Dem Party Platform presents to reactionary ideology on policing, the carceral state, and migrant justice is utterly shameful, and objectively fascist. Rather than criticizing still quite deadly, violent, and racist American policing, Democrats are now literally applauding murderpigs for their sacrifices; I guess we've come along way from even the tepid support liberals offered the Black Lives Matter movement and folks protesting the police execution of George Floyd back in 2020. To wit, the Party has replaced calls for police reform, with promises to fund more violent, racist murderpigs; the terms “mass incarceration” and “police brutality” have been stricken from the platform entirely.

On the subject of immigration and border policing, the Democrats have all but surrendered to fascist rhetoric and a moral panic cooked up by the Republican Party. Promises to fight against "kids in cages" and expand the asylum system for migrants have been replaced with plaudits for a Biden deportation regime Politico recently suggested was so expansive that Trump would have a hard time surpassing it. The platform also offers up the proverbial three cheers for Joe's illegal adoption via executive order of Trump's objectively fascist immigration policies designed to limit the number of asylum seekers entering the U.S. based on harsh quotas dictated by the president, not risk or need; policies that are likely in direct violation of international laws on asylum, by the way.

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Imagination is a muscle, and like any muscle, if you don't use it enough, it becomes weak and harder to use it regularly or for long periods.

Revolutionary change requires us to imagine what life could be like outside of the current system.

What would a world without #Capitalism or #Borders look like?

What would happen if we got rid of the #CarceralState and instead instituted a different way of resolving conflict?

Why SHOULDNT all people have free access to #Housing , #Food , and #Healthcare ?

@UnicornRiot 3rd precinct was the flame of hope extinguished by #JimCrowJoe, funding the #CarceralState by increasing police and prison funding and not #EndQualifiedImmunity. He thought with the Community Safety Center he was done, and could transition to crimes against the global community. But MAGAots traded more prisons on the southern border if he wants to fund his #GenocideJoe projects. Liberal democrats job is never done.