This moment for me, I’m questioning electoral-ism as an energy suck and as a vehicle for transformation. I understand that voting was a tactic of harm reduction. I don’t know. I think the energy that goes into these presidential campaigns, everybody’s focused on them, actually might be to the detriment of the work that needs to be getting done for our survival on a bigger scale. I know what the Democratic Party is for me. They don’t represent me. Like, I’m not their constituency in the least. And like, as the years have gone on, I’m less and less and less that for them. They don’t need to listen to me. I’m not their audience. And they definitely don’t cater to my politics and my politic. And as that’s becoming clearer and clearer to me, I’m just wondering, what else is there for us to be doing? If we’re going to engage in electoral organizing, what does it mean to do that work? What should we be focusing on and pushing? Can we be using the resources that are devoted to this in different kinds of ways?

mariame kaba