I want to draw attention to the elephant in the room.
Leading up to the election, and perhaps even more prominently now, we’ve been seeing droves of people on the internet displaying a series of traits in common.
- Claiming to be leftists
- Dedicating most of their posting to dismantling any power possessed by the left
- Encouraging leftists not to vote or to vote for third party candidates
- Highlighting issues with the Democratic party as being disqualifying while ignoring the objectively worse positions held by the Republican party
- Attacking anyone who promotes defending leftist political power by claiming they are centrists and that the attacker is “to the left of them”
- Using US foreign policy as a moral cudgel to disempower any attempt at legitimate engagement with the US political system
- Seemingly doing nothing to actually mount resistance against authoritarianism
When you look at an aerial view of these behaviors in conjunction with one another, what they’re accomplishing is pretty plain to see, in my opinion. It’s a way of utilizing the moral scrupulousness of the left to cut our teeth out politically. We get so caught up in giving these arguments the benefit of the doubt and of making sure people who claim to be leftists have a platform that we’re missing ideological parasites in our midst.
This is not a good-faith discourse. This is not friendly disagreement. This is, largely, not even internal disagreement. It is infiltration, and it’s extremely effective.
Before attacking this argument as lacking proof, just do a little thought experiment with me. If there is a vector that allows authoritarians to dismantle all progress made by the left, to demotivate us and to detract from our ability to form coalitions and build solidarity, do you really think they wouldn’t take advantage of it?
By refusing to ever consider that those who do nothing with their time in our spaces but try to drive a wedge between us, to take away our power and make us feel helpless and hopeless, we’re giving them exactly that vector. I am telling you, they are using it.
We need to stop letting them. We need to see it for what it is, get the word out, and remember, as the political left, how to use the tools that we have to change society. It starts with us between one another. It starts with what we do in the spaces that we inhabit. They know this, and it’s why they’re targeting us here.
Stop being an easy target. Stop feeding the cuckoo.
“I would have overthrown the bourgeoisie, but I couldn’t find a ride.”
That’s pretty much it. Most of my rides have died due to preventable causes, and they were lifelong D voters. There’s one left and they’re not in great shape. The others are busy working several jobs and caring for children or elderly family members. We worked hard, even up to death, when jobs were available.
Oh no! I better stop being a D voter. You convinced me. It’s super dangerous.
I’m not_trying_ to convince you. And your attitude that good people who would absolutely give you their last meal for days or literally stand in front of you to take a bullet that you may or not deserve are disposable lives certainly isn’t convincing me to vote Dem, because that’s the same contempt we get from them. You’re bougie lifestyle wouldn’t be possible if not for us, dropping dead with stage 4 cancer while we dig the wells for your summer homes, plow the fields for your organic corn, strawberries, lentils, or suffer cancers for the sprayed crops of conventionally grown foods while our skin blisters and weeps. Go pick your own damn cotton, harvest your own hemp, log your own trees and mill your own paper. One of my neighbor’s lives is worth a million of yours, because we know_compassion_.
Eta: let me see you throw those fat, juicy watermelons up on a truck in 100+ f heat. Without water until next 10 minute break. Or install the solar farms.
Literally no idea what you’re talking about here.
Were you the one saying that it’s okay if everyone in Gaza dies this month because of Trump coming to power and making things way worse for them, because it’s all the Democrats’ fault for not being good enough to vote for and that’s what’s really important? Or was that someone else? Maybe it was someone else.
I’ve had early stage heat exhaustion from working outside. I’ve gotten bleach in my eye cleaning up and still finished my shift. I’ve worked a lot of different jobs. You don’t know anything about me.
Of course you have no idea.
URL.
I know what you’ve shown me.
Lol I think the useful part of this conversation is at an end. Even if it was someone else, arguing about that wasn’t the main point of anything I was saying.