[2025]
[a green character looks anxious, speaks] I fear some people in this movement may have a racial bias issue
[a yellow character looks pissed, raises their hand and talks back] Now’s not the right time to be saying that We can’t afford to be turning away people Stop trying to divide us racially You are an agitator
[the yellow character is now looking distraught] Huh, the movement has been coopted by liberals and fizzled out Nobody could have predicted this outcome
[2026] The exact same situation repeats
[2027] The exact same situation repeats
[2028] The exact same situation seems to be repeating endlessly
With the way the fight is shaping up, the outcome will not be positive.
Maybe the abolish ICE movement will manage to stop them from shooting white people (which would be a small win tbh), but they don’t seem to have the teeth required to turn it into a proper radical movement that will attack the core issues and cure the USA from its rot. There’s no organization, no clear end goal, no leadership, it’ll end up being coopted by Gavin Newsom or some other soft centrist and turned into a propaganda movement for liberals in the 2026 primaries and 2028 election.
I’m afraid a real movement that provides actual systemic change in the USA and breaks the cycle can only come from minorities, from people who have nothing left to lose and won’t accept halfway concessions. Insert here the quote from MLK about the white liberal being a bigger enemy to minorities in the US than the KKK. If they cared, they’d have primary’d Biden out in favor of a progressive in 2024, since the ICE death camps continued killing people under his presidency.
Hmm I get where you’re coming from. It does seem concerning that they aren’t organized as much as they should be.
I have felt similar to you in some ways. The fact that people didn’t already have some kind of structure earlier on feels like a massive missed opportunity but I recognize that it’s probably easier said than done to organize a whole independent movement across a country. I agree it might very well end up that way.
I guess …I always like to prep for the worst and hope for the best. But don’t lose hope. I think there’s always time to turn things around.