On Episode 269 of KK&F, featuring Vaush and Guy Christensen, we’re having a necessary conversation about the dead-end politics of the Democratic Party and what’s holding us back from organizing collectively at the grassroots level as the American public. The major setback, perhaps, is that the center-left and left lack a cohesive vision to move forward. Bernie ‘16 and ‘20 gave people something to rally behind, acknowledging what makes life in America so unbearable and unsustainable for working- and middle-class people, and de-emphasizing dead-end identity politics without denying the major effects of race- and gender-based discrimination on economic stability and social life. We arrive at the realization that moving beyond electoral politics as a limiting framework (but, to be clear, without abandoning it, and while continuing to see it as a primary site of class struggle) is the only thing that will allow us to collectively think beyond the day-by-day horrors Trump and his cronies foist upon us to keep our heads down and our noses to the grindstone.

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