election year just got real, or have we seen this all before?

Ap­point­ing a cop as your Vice Pres­i­dent while the left has spent the sum­mer open­ly protest­ing po­lice bru­tal­i­ty and cor­rup­tion is such an “eat shit fuck­ers” move.

See­ing elec­tions as a sit­u­a­tion where you must act con­ser­v­a­tive­ly, and then you must spend the non-elec­tion time act­ing rad­i­cal­ly, does not work if you and peo­ple like you are not or­ga­niz­ing in the off times.

Es­pe­cial­ly when you’ve his­tor­i­cal­ly aban­doned pol­i­tics when a De­mo­c­rat has been at the helm, do­ing noth­ing but com­pro­mis­ing with the dev­il.

“Oh but Mel­ony, Trump is un­prece­dent­ed …”

No, he’s not.

He’s the next step of Bush Jr, who was the next step of Bush Sr, who was the next step of Rea­gan.

The fact that so many of you don’t see it alarms me. You’ve been LIT­ER­AL­LY ALIVE FOR IT.

The fact that you saw Bush em­bar­rass us lo­cal­ly and in­ter­na­tion­al­ly with his fla­grant stu­pid­i­ty while trig­ger­ing end­less wars, that you saw him have shoes thrown at his head and read a children’s book up­side down, that he nor­mal­ized a lev­el of ex­is­tence that en­abled some­one like Trump, who is dumb­er and vil­er, and now you just think he’s some cute old man who paints cats??

It makes me think that should Biden be elect­ed, you will once again not or­ga­nize in the off times, and then be some­how shocked when the step af­ter Trump comes.

“Oh Mel­ony, what have you even done to have the au­thor­i­ty to lec­ture me?”

I was po­lit­i­cal­ly ac­tive in the Oba­ma era. My gay self was on edge from the start when he was cam­paign­ing in ’08 with “mar­riage is be­tween a man and a woman.” And then Cal­i­for­nia agreed with him.

I marched in the street, I or­ga­nized and at­tend­ed se­cret ed­u­ca­tion­al meet­ings at ac­tivists’ hous­es, I made it my job every­where I went to fa­cil­i­tate queer space and to make those spaces as safe as I could. It only slowed so hard in the Trump years be­cause my health and san­i­ty had to come first. And I STILL made at­tempts to make queer space where I was. And I STILL try to ed­u­cate peo­ple, and my­self.

Don’t beat oth­ers over the head with how they should vote and how more Trump will be their fault, not when the al­ter­na­tive giv­en has been such an open slap in the face to MANY peo­ple who have been on the ground floor, or even re­mote­ly pay­ing at­ten­tion the whole time.

Pre­pare for more Trump, com­mit to­day to what you’re gonna do in that event, and then be pre­pared to DO IT ANY­WAY. Or, be hon­est that all you’re go­ing to do is fill your bub­bles and go home, and make the rad­i­cal choice.

 

—mel­ony ppenosyne

Flom­mist Mel­ony Ppenosyne is a writer and weird artist type. In the last year alone, she’s trav­eled to Vir­ginia as a com­pet­ing poet, co-writ­ten a play on men­tal ill­ness that is present­ly be­ing pro­duced, and craft­ed a pub­lished es­say check­ing the priv­i­lege and scope of art gal­leries. Copy­right © 2020 Mel­ony Ppenosyne. Pic­tured: The cast of That’s My Bush, cropped (2001).

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