the reason leftist politics is dead in the water in the US is that you all let the antisocial libertarians into the tent as a hail mary to beat Hillary in 2016 and now you’re stuck with people who valorize perpetual childhood
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Cool. Someone just replied to my post predicting that people are going to pretend that their assumptions about the political beliefs of Jews at this peaceful weekly vigil in Colorado to be callous & justify the attack with a snide “menorah joke”. About people being set on fire.
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It was incredibly liberating!
One of the first things that got to me about DSA as someone demsoc curious was that it always seems like people who believed in democratic socialism were a plurality at best within the org.
Like that far side where it's a flock of sheep that's all disguised wolves, but for left entryism.
1. media is pro right wing so none of their worst weirdos ever get singled out as representative of the whole party
2. their weirdos generally think the idea of hierarchy is badass so they get off by being in one rather than defying it