YOU ARE CORRECT TO SEE THAT THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY IS NOT RESISTING FASCISM
It's amazing that Democrats think anyone will fall for "What ICE really needs is bodycams and more money." What happened when they did the same thing with police? Police murders went up.
Bodycams, whether they are attached to police or to ICE, are an easy way for our expanding police state to gather more video of the people and populations that they are targeting.
Tim Walz is incorrect to say that taking video of ICE is Americans' best tool to resist. ICE loves it when you help advertise their "lethality." A far better tool to resist ICE is to stop voting for people like Tim Walz and start voting for people who would defund ICE.
To hope that police will soon start arresting ICE is illogical. Police fraternities are explicitly pro-ICE. This fantasy makes as much as sense as hoping that ICE starts arresting the police. Our police murder about 1000 Americans per year, much more than ICE. The result after George Floyd was the largest demonstrations in U.S. history. Democratic response to this was to increase police spending, notably in Minneapolis.
To say that ICE is cracking down as revenge against Democrats only makes sense if you're saying Democrats also want revenge against their own voters. Democrats are overwhelmingly pro-ICE. Democrats have consistently voted to expand, militarize, and enrich ICE for 20 years. If you read the news, you know they still are. Pretending this isn't true is not a good strategy for opposing ICE.
You might not hear it from lawmakers or corporate media, but polls show that support for abolishing ICE is high -- with a clear majority of self-described Democrats and moderates. The fact that Democratic lawmakers and pundits are using this moment to say that abolishing ICE is unpopular shows that they are liars. They're not "democratic" in any way, shape or form.
Revolutionary energy has never been higher. Americans have had enough of the unaccountable police state, genocide, forever war, billionaires, corruption, and capitalism itself. No wonder Democrats and Republicans are running scared. They are the two major parties, and want to keep it that way. Republicans are desperate to terrify you, Democrats are desperate to pacify you.
There's a desperation to believe that someone in power is coming to save us. We're seeing a lot of violence, From ICE to Palestine to military invasions. But this “lethality” is a deliberate, methodical creation of the Democratic and Republican parties. The denial and mental gymnastics required to fantasize that Democrats have "almost figured out that ICE is bad" or "almost figured out that genocide is bad" are making the country and the world unsafe, and wasting everyone's time.
We have no major opposition party to fascism. Fascism is anti-democratic lawmakers, an unaccountable police state, military invasions, different value assigned to different races, mandatory nationalism, genocide, crackdowns on dissent, and an obsession with “lethality.” That describes the party platform of the Democratic and Republican parties.
Every attempt to create a non-fascist party gets crushed by the Democrats. In fact every substantive movement or action taken by Americans to oppose fascism gets ignored or opposed by Democrats. Think of George Floyd protests, anti-genocide protests, BDS, calls for a general strike, the Green Party, the Sanders presidential campaigns.
72% of House Democrats just voted with MAGA to cut UN funding, eliminate DEI programs, crush Palestinian autonomy, advance abortion restrictions, give $150M for border militarization, give $400M to “counter China,” and send another $3.8B to Israel while it commits genocide. Gavin Newsom is raising money to defeat California’s 2026 Billionaire Tax Act.
These are not minor policy quibbles or abstract philosophical debates. You have been betrayed, and your lives are in immediate danger, because both Democrats and Republicans have been extracting your money to pay for militarizing police, expanding ICE, heading into world war, enriching billionaires, and removing your safety net. It's important to stop voting such people into office.
It's good to complain about ICE, genocide, and illegal military invasions. It lets everyone know they aren't alone. But it's also good not to vote for them. Our whole lives we've been told it's wrong to vote for candidates who won't fund these things.
We've had enough. No more votes for pro-ICE, pro-Israel, pro-lethality candidates.
In 2026 it's no more votes for candidates who take money from the Israel lobby and billionaire-owned corporations. It's abolish ICE, it's free Palestine, it's Medicare For All, it's raise minimum wage, it's tax billionaires, it's defund the police, it's no more AI data centers, it's end the genocide of trans people, it's cancel student loan debt, it's end hunger and homelessness, it's end mass incarceration, it's never again to state-sanctioned torture, rape, apartheid, ethic cleansing, and endless war. That's the bare minimum.