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Are you protesting for the good of the people or the good of the Party?
A friend of mine recently attended a rally at the State House, one of the many anti-Trump protests that are happening all over the country right now. Videos of these events, and my conversations with those who have attended the protests in my State, seem to be centered around a hatred of Elon Musk and Donald Trump (including anyone who voted for him), combined with pleas to the Democrats to do something.
I do not support Donald Trump, I want to make that clear. But hating on Trump and his followers provides no solution to our current problems. Hatred further divides the public, which only makes it easier for the oligarchs (like Elon Musk) to control us.
Also, all these protests are mostly populated by those who seem to believe that voting for Democrats is somehow a solution, ignoring how things have gotten worse for most of us for decades, no matter which party held the majority in Washington, DC.
The Democrats’ populist moment is over. Four years after then-candidate Joe Biden promised a public healthcare option, the PRO Act and a $15 minimum wage, the codification of Roe v. Wade, tuition-free community college, and an end to President Trump’s border wall, Kamala Harris is running on a xenophobic…
