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I'm tired of losing, and I'm tired of hearing cope about how elections don't matter or how Bowman was uh bad actually.
He's a liberal that voted for the Iron Dome funding and quietly left the DSA before that. He's a liberal and not an example of us losing. I would never claim him to be on my side or my organization's side or a comrade.
Not sure about this bit
Bowman's not a comrade but soft criticism of Israel lost to full throated support of Israel in an election. I think that demonstrates a loss of some kind.
It demonstrates a loss for running a bourgeois electoral campaign by a triangulating politician. It's like watching Elizabeth Warren lose because she had a single correct take, softly, despite materially doing the opposite in office. And then going, "damn! We lost!"
I definitely take zero ownership over bourgeois politicians that aren't backed by any socialist organization. They will always be either marginalized and removed using the backfiring liberal tools they opted to use or coopted fully.
Bourgeois electoralism isn’t a sphere any of us win in. Bowman never represented a victory, even in the most modest sense
There are wins and losses wirhin the sphere of bourgeois electoralism, because within those bounds a lot can change about how oppressed or not oppressed people are, how easy it is to organize an alternative, etc. It's the difference between:
Start looking for W's at the local and state levels. Easier to win, and peppering lower level seats with committed socialists could do a lot to undermine the federal government and actually get some shit done.