He somehow seems to think, still, that he can shape the Democrats. "If I thought there was a viable 3rd party do you think I would be voting for them? Fuck no" he says, after scolding someone in his chat, calling them an ultra, for calling him out for his continued connection to the democrats.
But lets think about this for a second...
how the fuck
do you build
a fucking party
do you do it by voting for, another party
do you do it by telling people to vote for another party
or do you do it by building A FUCKING WORKING CLASS PARTY
LIKE FUCKING LENIN SAID
I don't really understand what Hasan thinks these Democrats are supposed to "DO" in this situation. "They're not DOING it!" he yells. What is "IT"? Go against their class interests, defy the fundamental laws of capital and somehow break free of their social relations through pure force of will? His proximity to the Democratic Party is what breeds this weird fucking obsession he has.
"These guys are mad because they talk to ME and not their Pedo sex cult leader, that's why they're mad". What if they didn't talk to you, though? What if tomorrow they just stopped talking to you at all? What if the only reason they talk to you AT ALL is that they know that you have a huge fucking audience, and you are actually effective at moving people to the left? So instead, they give you cookies and treats, they give you access and interviews, they let you into the DNC, they give you access to candidates, like Zoran.
I really do think at this point, that he is being catfished by the Democratic Party. That they understand that he is an effective communicator, and they have somehow convinced him that if he just keeps at it, he can one day kick that football for real.
Then there is NO electoral solution. If the co-opt, tea party like insurgency can't work and the third party option can't work (I mean when has the Green party garnered more than 2% of a national vote?)...
What's left? No one is going to pick up guns. No one is willing to go farther than useless protests. I guess I just sit around and wait to die?
This is what pisses me off about you people. You love to say "organize" as if we are all surrounded by people who actually want to do something. Guess what, they don't! People are inherently lazy!
Also I take particular issue with this part of your comment. The options are not vote or gun! A group of people united around the same goal are able to exercise their political, economic, and even physical power to affect change. Lenin explained this! That's how the Bolsheviks won!
Yeah tell that to the lazy bums in my org
Some offense, this is a reddit socdem type comment.
Organizing is about finding and creating people who actually want to do something! When I was laying the groundwork for a union at my old job, some of the people I thought wouldn't be into it were on-board and willing to help because we had a goal and a path to get there.
I actually think Hasan is a semi-effective organizer because through talking about progressive politics he's gotten a fair number of people into activism and union work. The main issue is that he doesn't seem to endorse or outwardly participate in any specific orgs so it's a little anarchic but I suppose that's a limitation of his transnational platform.
Some offense taken but not really. It's just really frustrating from my end that people say they want to do things, and then when I suggest an easy task they can do suddenly all of the excuses come out or now we need a "mission statement" or you know anything short of just saying "no, I don't want to do that"
Tired of feeling so alone and powerless. If I can't make anything happen then engaging in politics is just self-harm at a certain point because all it is doing is making me feel like shit
I definitely get the frustration I just don't like limiting ourselves to electoral politics as the only path because of it, that's dangerous thinking.