Last weekend, former Rage Against The Machine guitarist Tom Morello held his star-studded one-day Power To The People festival at Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, Maryland. The whole event was framed as a left-wing political gathering, and Morello joined Bruce Springsteen for a set of protest songs. Before the show, Morello did a Rolling Stone…

Some people out there seem to be confused, but I always vote in every local and every national election for every office and every ballot initiative since I was 18 years old. Some of my greatest civil rights heroes have fought and died so that we can all vote and I honor their memory in the ballot box every single time. 

To some of us, especially those of us like myself who have been scheduling secretaries for US senators, it often seems like a morally reprehensible choice between compromised corporate Democrats and fascist-minded Republicans. Where I live in California, I have the luxury of voting my conscience for president for third-party candidates that better align with my ideas of justice and equality. 

But in any and every contested race, as my mom Mary Morello always said, we have to fight the fascist every which way we can, recognizing that even if there’s but an inch of difference between two candidates, there are a lot of vulnerable people who could be greatly harmed in that inch. So vote your ass off, but don’t just exercise your right to vote. Exercise your right to fight for, organize for, struggle for, and manifest the kind of world you’d like to really see without compromise and without apologies before, during, and after election day. And let’s stop the fascists every which way we can. Power the people.

  • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 day ago

    That’s great. The options, after the primaries, basically boil down to these two types of scenarios:

    1. A candidate that will genocide the hardest and gleefully and sell off Gaza to the likes of Jared to create beachfront property, while attacking opposition within this very country - meaning deportation/prison/stripping citizenship. The other candidate may only tepidly go along with things (but maybe not actually) due to military-industrial inertia.

    2. A candidate that very well may start throwing trans in prison, or worse. Versus a candidate that may be rather squishy and need convincing/pushing on things like sports and what treatments are available to children, etc.

    I happen to have trans in my life that I agonize about every day, given the dangers under this administration and conservatives in general. I have basically two real choices. Withholding my vote on some Democrat I deem to be less than perfect will only advance the fascist agenda and it will endanger those I care about.