Was just having this conversation last night with a friend as we were remarking to each other how mesmerizing dusk is with the summer fireflies.
When he said they didn’t exist out West where he grew up I was surprised.
Thought all along fireflies at dusk was one of the more enchanting parts of summer.
Can’t believe I’m allowing myself to believe in electoral politics again. Because of this.
But the difference this time…no really, Zohran’s movement, aligned with DSA and consisting of over 50k canvassers (which is staggering), is the thing that really makes me want to help push this over the top.
With a movement behind you comes leverage.
Thing is, he must be willing to mobilize it for massive rallies that will be needed to get the agenda across.
And, we have to make the billionaire scumbags fear us. And that means humongous Tax The Rich rallies.
But most effectively I think DSA must mobilize rallies outside of the meeting Zohran will have with “business leaders,” the NYPD, etc. Especially that those Wall Street criminals and oligarchs think they can siphon him off, basically tell him who’s boss. When they say or imply that he should be able to say, “look out the window down into the street; there are 20,000 people down there. They’re boss!”
They need to know We Are Many.
It really does seem like an incredible opportunity to finally realize some real socialism in this hellhole country.