Yes, the Left Should ‘Vote Harder’

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The complaints against the “vote harder” appeal are not without merit. But winning back reproductive rights will take many kinds of political activity from the left, and one of those is defeating opponents at the polls. SamAdlerBell writes

Photo: Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images To be a leftist in America is to be a connoisseur of defeat. We are intimately familiar with all its textures and flavors. We know just how to cut its bitterness with a splash of vindication, to elevate a stale portion of hope with a hearty side of sanctimony, recrimination, or rancor. Conditioned to expect defeat, we have learned to take perverse comfort in its arrival. For the left, the taste of failure is a home-cooked meal.

Amid these gestures of resilience and solidarity, another familiar ritual took shape — one we might prosaically call the Blame Game. I’m not sure who struck first. There must’ve been a tweet; somewhere, someone must’ve said something about voting, about how it would be necessary to elect more pro-choice Democrats and make sure a Democrat is president the next time one of our nine doddering super-clerics kicks his oxygen habit.

If we are asking each other to show up for protests and civil disobedience, to donate our wages to abortion funds, to create networks of mutual aid and conspire to break laws, I really can’t see why we wouldn’t also ask each other to vote — not in the abstract, as some sort of a prayer to the God of American Democracy, and not because we believe the Democrats “deserve” to win, but, very concretely, because replacing anti-choice electeds with pro-choice electeds is one of a range of strategies...

“It takes courage to tell the truth about oneself, about one’s own defeat,” wrote the socialist playwright Bertolt Brecht. “Many of the persecuted lose their capacity for seeing their own mistakes. It seems to them that the persecution itself is the greatest injustice. The persecutors are wicked simply because they persecute; the persecuted suffer because of their goodness.”

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