We see the games they play and it appals us. Unfortunately it’s the only game in town. To change the game, you’re not only fighting the DNC and RNC, but network effect and inertia.
And some of us don’t have the luxury to risk it. Even if it leads to a better world.
The problem with this mindset is the ratchet effect.
If you see a fascist movement forming or a movement being coopted, you can’t just sit idly by, thats how you get fascism.
You have to fight it. You have to treat the real problems that cause people to become fascists, and show people that you can make a better world. Not by debating people in the market place of ideas, that’s a liberal pipe dream when fascists only use the rules as a bludgeon. But by actually building one inside the shell of the systems that are currently here.
The DNC is unwilling to fight fascists, and completely willing to allow people fighting it to get crushed by their authoritarian beliefs.
The DNC would rather give us moderates than a candidate that will bring people to the polls on the threat that the other one is a fascist
We see the games they play and it appals us. Unfortunately it’s the only game in town. To change the game, you’re not only fighting the DNC and RNC, but network effect and inertia. And some of us don’t have the luxury to risk it. Even if it leads to a better world.
To bring it back full circle:
Poverty literally rewires our brains and makes us plan on very very short timescales.
Feeling like you don’t have the luxury to plan ahead is both parties playing on normal human thinking to take advantage of you.
They keep you poor, and you can’t see through their bullshit.
Nothing will ever be fixed if we’re always ignoring the long-term and just taking any crumbs were offered now.
We get the option of a shit sandwich or a single baloney sandwich a day.
Obviously the bologna is better, but it’s not enough to live off of, we’re just going to starve slower.
The only disagreement I have is with the rather sweeping statement:
As it makes it seem that the poor are ignorant, gullible rubes. Lack of money ≠ lack of wisdom, or insight.
The problem with this mindset is the ratchet effect.
If you see a fascist movement forming or a movement being coopted, you can’t just sit idly by, thats how you get fascism.
You have to fight it. You have to treat the real problems that cause people to become fascists, and show people that you can make a better world. Not by debating people in the market place of ideas, that’s a liberal pipe dream when fascists only use the rules as a bludgeon. But by actually building one inside the shell of the systems that are currently here.
The DNC is unwilling to fight fascists, and completely willing to allow people fighting it to get crushed by their authoritarian beliefs.
The DNC would rather give us moderates than a candidate that will bring people to the polls on the threat that the other one is a fascist