I just want a political 'left' that has clear, strong ethics and that can just be direct — say the shit that we're all thinking. Put your foot in your mouth a little, don't be shy. It's not the time to be middling.
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1/2 Yes. So many people want to just forgo all ethics and principles, the moment they become inconvenient. But it we want to run as good guys, and be able to defeat evil people, we have to actually be good. No lib shit, like running as "the good guys," while supporting a fucking genocide.
2/2 And you can do a lot less than that, and still be out of line. We have to have a movement worth growing, for it to grow. We're not propped up, by oligarch-owned media, like right-wingers and liberals are.
I think the challenge is that the solution to this situation is to arrest the sitting president of the United States. And this time, though he didn’t win a majority, he did win more votes than any other candidate. The most effective short term solution is a subversion of 1/2
Democracy, which is unacceptable. Aside from an actual coup, what real option do we have? Our leaders have no power in government right now, even if they weren’t silent.
Still, there needs to be stronger language in all corners.
You have Bernie Sanders there! He’s a great guy with real common sense. But for some reason Americans are scared of anything they consider leftwing (which includes unions that fought to give everyone decent employment terms, like vacation, lunch breaks and 40 hr a week instead of 60!!!)
Because our country spent about 50 years demonizing anything that even resembled socialism, and that propaganda was so effective it warped two entire generations, thus priming us for a right wing, then full-on fascist, takeover.
The U.S. has never had a left. Sanders, Warren, etc. barely qualify as center right. We only have Nazis and slightly less right. And this is where 60 years of that gets you.
And the current 'left' seems to operate from a 'don't rock the boat too much' standpoint, which suggests to me that they think their base is tenuous at best. We just want strong progressive values coupled with strong progressive policies and less of the 'toxic niceness' in lieu of actual compassion.
They’re trying to keep the boat from moving at all while their opposition drags it to the right. I don’t know how to explain to them that getting it on course will probably require some rocking.
I just finished reading the first vol of Emma Goldman's biography. Those old anarchists would have valued the direct action you do over any government. I understand the harm reduction in voting, but politics might be the wrong sphere to look for real change.
Remind those centerist/Liberal assholes that politicians like Trump are bred to beat them in a fight. And that the only way to win against those who inspire anger is to inspire anger of your own.
Liberalism as an ideology is the antithesis of this.
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I think the challenge is that the solution to this situation is to arrest the sitting president of the United States. And this time, though he didn’t win a majority, he did win more votes than any other candidate. The most effective short term solution is a subversion of 1/2
Still, there needs to be stronger language in all corners.
Liberals on the other hand. I'm not going to allow that absolute horrific stuff that comes out of their mouths.
And people think our politics are too far to the left. What ever happened to compassion?
Exactly. The biggest weakness of the left is leadership who are afraid to stand up and speak confidently about what we believe in
the biggest weakness of the left is a devotion to talking about beliefs outweighing any devotion to enacting them
au contraire
the biggest weakness of the left is
a devotion to talking about beliefs
outweighing
any devotion to enacting them
does that make the sentence more understandable
That being said, it really rubs me the wrong way when people use "politics" to refer to "electoral politics" and/or "the state".
I was taught that "politics" refers to the distribution of social power in a society.
Politics isn't a sphere, it's an attribute of every part of civilized life!
Obviously someone reading Emma Goldman doesn't need telling this.
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Those two women are the energy we need moving forward. If an elected Democrat can't fight like this, step out of the way. We need brawlers.
Liberalism as an ideology is the antithesis of this.