Some leftists need to grasp that when far right voters tell pollsters they want mass deportations and also wealth redistribution, that's not two separate parts of their brain talking. They're not secret socialists who are just kidding about the racism. They want economic benefits *for whites only*.
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Certain races have been considered lower class by default even if they climbed the ladder, and lower class people get their race blamed as the reason for not bootstrapping.
The idea that racism is only the result of economic deprivation is common among the left
Oh. Healthcare reform is popular with Republican voters too? Have you asked what they mean by that? Because it is, I am not exaggerating. Horrific. Like musing about single moms being forced into sterilization to get on Medicade.
https://donate.unrwa.org/int/en/general
And it certainly is not a “mere” distraction. Racism certainly is used to divide and conquer though. It is used to keep class solidarity from coalescing in any meaningful way. It is a serious issue that must be dealt with before a meaningful
Both things are true, and neither is mutually exclusive of the other.
Stop acting like quotes from anonymous consultants are quotes from party leadership. Stop letting the fucking media play you.
There was a very silly online movement for “bottom [of the political compass] unity” between anarchists and libertarians, and that’s just collaboration.
It’ll shock some but not surprise many: plenty of Democratic voters feel the same way. Look in upper middle class suburbs of “blue” cities and you find hordes of them. I lived near Chicago among them. Now in a “red” town, at least they’re upfront racists.
But watch them when the local Muslim community wants to build a mosque in their town. Or a Black candidate runs for an office previously held by a series of white men. Not so polite then.
the "if we broke up the big banks, would that end racism?" types
but what they want is to interfere with anything that might affect the status quo
if we’re looking for more solidarity, they’d be the ones to talk to. the hardest thing is convincing them capital is the problem and not necessarily government.
In other words, National Socialism.
How's that working out for liberals?
How can you blame the folks you've repeatedly ignored and silenced, and who's warning have proven right time & again?
Liberals run the party but want to to blame others for their failures. Typical.
Likewise Labor is losing it's working class base just like the Dems.
This is not country specific. The left and center-left cannot hold power by ceding large swaths of workers to the right.
All the demographics that swung toward Trump are the ones that used to go hard for Bernie.
Forget progressivism & it's cultural baggage. We need economic populism.
Any questions?
https://onlys.ky/the-state-of-christian-nationalism-in-2022-an-interview-with-katherine-stewart/
universal healthcare for in-group
gas chambers , wait I mean deportation for the out group
They would be screaming it from the rooftops if they thought it would help.
Please link to “leftists” you claim think like that.
Or are you just reframing “lesser-evilism” so it sounds less evil?
We’re doomed then, I guess. I’d hoped for better.
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Once upon a time, all kinds of progressive programs had wide support: guaranteed jobs, minimum wage increases, public housing, gov't help to pay for college, healthcare for all, etc.
The country LOVED all these ideas back when they thought white folks would be the only ones to benefit.
However, they used to have wide appeal specifically among white folks.
If the majority of white folks still liked these things they'd still be voting democratic.
It’s wild for people not to realize minority groups do a disproportionate amount of the grunt work in this society!
slavery really is like original sin for this country, inescapable and all distortional of everything that came after because of the monsters rich white land owners became to enforce it
Universal acre
Universal solidarity
Depeche Mode ‧ 1983:
The grabbing hands grab all they can
Everything counts in large amounts
The grabbing hands grab all they can
But in countries with PR systems and communist/socialist parties standing against radical right ...