Wednesday, December 25, 2024

let me be as clear as i can: i am not a trump supporter. i have never endorsed trump. i endorsed clinton in 2016 (which was a rare event; i very rarely endorse democrats), and endorsed not voting or voting green or socialist in 2020 and 2024.

to begin with, i'm transgendered, but i'm not a right-winger, i'm an old timey by the book socialist that makes bernie sanders look moderate. old timey by the book socialists are completely outside of the political spectrum, and it actually causes me to take weird positions; i have at times aggressively argued that the soft-left liberal party is actually more "socialist" in a by-the-book way than the prairie populist ndp, which was initially a prairie gospel party and, as such, has always held a number of very not socialist policies. almost nobody cares about these technicalities and doesn't understand why i'm so anti-ndp and it consistently alienates me from a "modern left", which i continually disparage as "fake". 

the problem with the democrats, and biden's been worse than anybody, is that they're so terrible that they can't even get a socialist transwoman to vote for them to block a candidate using large amounts of sophistry and demagoguery to scapegoat you, personally, to win votes. i don't expect he'll be able to do much substantive, but it's still unsettling to see the turn of events.

so, i'm certainly not a trump supporter. at all. but, as i'm aware of the terribleness of the alternative, i'm going to do what almost nobody anywhere else will do, which is analyze his policies fairly. i've been extremely critical of biden's foreign policy, but i've been as fair as i can, and i'm going to continue that with trump.