Cav's Place

Now when it seems that there’s a question whether Biden’s “garbage” remark was about Trump’s supporters in general or just about a specific one, I’d rather make things simple: What those who support Trump are is enemies. Period. And that also applies to a fair extent to anyone who doesn’t openly push back against the possibility of him becoming president of the USA once again. The reasons why such people might have such a stance and any other ways to characterize them are irrelevant. And, if anything, those of us who aren’t over there may be even more entitled to call on those who are to do more to stop him and lash out against those who don’t, not to mention those who actually support him, considering how much the outcome of these elections will influence the world in general and certain “hot” areas, which include the one I’m in, in particular, and how little we can really do about it ourselves. Anyone capable and, perhaps more importantly, willing to see reason would have done so long ago, so this is a matter where battle lines must be drawn. If that side doesn’t lose, all of us, and the world as a whole, will.
That’s not to say that Harris or the Democrats are a good option. They never were and I don’t see how they could ever be. As always, it’s a choice between bad and so, so much worse; between a bleak future and complete disaster. It’s a matter of choosing the next adversary, the next opponent of the efforts that must succeed if we, this world as a whole and all other species we share, or should be sharing, it with are to have any hope of a future that won’t seem pulled right out of postapocalyptic fiction. And from that point of view the choice is clear. Not that I’d accuse those voting for “third party” candidates; in general that’s what I firmly advocate for and in states where the outcome is sufficiently clear I’d do so now as well, but this time around the greater evil absolutely must be stopped at all costs, so at least in swing states, where every vote may matter, this sacrifice of values, voting for the lesser evil when other options may be available, may well be required.
But, of course, voting is not where it ends, but merely where this next stage begins. Those who are over there or otherwise have the right to vote in the US elections must vote against Trump, but all of us must work and fight to bring about the massive changes that are necessary, holding to account those in power, be it political, economic, social or of any other kind, here, there and everywhere, pressuring and forcing them to do what needs to be done, because they never will otherwise, or at least not until they’ll stop being able to do one of the things that humans are best at, which is making others, be it the environment, other species, or other people who are less powerful, less wealthy, less represented or otherwise just different from them, pay for their choices. As Greta Thunberg once again put it very well, nothing less will ever be acceptable.