Politics feels a lot less hopeless when you stop hating the people who vote for harmful leaders.
When you understand they're just people, taking information they've been given, and voting for what they think is best for the people they love.
We just need to communicate a better alternative 💚
When you understand they're just people, taking information they've been given, and voting for what they think is best for the people they love.
We just need to communicate a better alternative 💚
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We need to understand why and how, specifically, they got there, and do our best to intercept and educate anyone on the same path.
Billionaire-owned media has easy access to put ideas in the mind of millions, and the ability to produce consistent messaging.
We have ourselves. The platforms we build, the spaces we occupy to educate and grow together.
It's another reason why I believe so strongly in community-owned solutions: it's likely you'll have right-wing and left-wing people, talking, working together, for their community.
We can't fight pro-capitalist media with anti-capitalist media. Our evidence needs to be stronger. They need to be able to see it, touch it, feel it.
It needs to be undeniable.
We're not working with the same information. They could have grown up with a totally different world of news. I struggle to condemn someone for simply taking the world at its word.
We have to believe those people are reachable at some point or what are we even fighting for?
"It's about intent" is what I said. I'm talking about the masses - the ones on the receiving end of a propaganda machine optimised for control over generations.
There's a level at which you can't claim ignorance, and it's much lower down the ladder than them.
If you're publicly standing up as an authority/influencer on a topic, you have a responsibility to understand it.
They just need trampling into the mud.
If they grew up with balanced viewpoints, relative privilege and decided as an adult to be racist, fuck them.
There's hope for those who ended up there via family propaganda or systemic inequality.