I would ask how you're doing, Jason, but I posted that question in my Instagram Q&A's and a lot of people are feeling similar things.
For those asking functional questions about what we can do: one of the big things that I believe is going to be very important for us is a theory known as inside/outside politics.
I believe we have people and elected officials that try to organize, build power, and help influence decisions on the inside of institutions — but that alone is not enough to make change in this country.
We also need mass-movement politics and robust people's movements. Those movements are where the actual seeds of power and influence in this country come from: from a mass, organized, mobilized base of working people.
So from an outside perspective, there are a lot of things that we have to do.
One of those things is something known as programs of political education, that can go from the most basic to more complex. But we need to learn a lot.
This comes down to political education, of race and class consciousness, and people understanding that these billionaires are not looking out for us. They are grinding us to a pulp and eating us for breakfast. They are burning our planet.
It is going to take a huge level of effort and solidarity. We are going to be looking towards our brothers and sisters in the labor movement, in the human and civil rights movement.
When I came to politics, it was not about trying to articulate what being a "leftist" is. I always considered myself as running from the bottom.
It is not about left and right. This is about top and bottom — and that we have to run from the bottom up.
To me, the Democratic Party's alienation of the working-class has to do with the fact that we haven't been able to deliver on a $15 minimum wage, etc, for many different reasons.
We have to put those demands front and center. We shouldn't be afraid to fight for what we believe in.
In solidarity,
Alexandria
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