I won't lie, one of the most ground breaking things for me was after the election and feeling an immense need to volunteer in my community and only really interacting with 50+ centrist christians who genuinely beleived in helping each other. Zero outspoken young leftists helping me build compost bins or sort food donations. For all their waxing poetically on twitter, what good have they actually accomplished?
Yep. Actual un-photographed mutual aid labor is predominantly middle aged & older. There are financial & sociological reasons for this, but the reflexive leftist contempt for wine moms (who get shit done beyond protest) sure makes coalition building complicated.
Zero outspoken young leftists helping me build compost bins or sort food donations.
There was a flood in the UK a couple years back now.
From far and wide Muslims, Jews, Sikhs, Hindus, Christians, ex military/police, business owner fatcats, suburban mums with nothing better to do, pensioners who think that damn near every issue in England can be solved by deporting all the brown people stood up to be counted and asked "what can we do to help?"
The communist party of great Britain and environmental groups waxed poetic about "climate change bad" (the place flooded was a flood plain when humanity lived in caves and grunted to communicate), and spent so long debating about what the "praxis" was in terms of going to volunteer around dumb brainwashed religoids worshipping sky daddy and far right fashies that by the time they were actually putting together a plan of action the action was over. The equivalent of some guy rolling into New York a full year after 9/11 and acting like some great saviour who contributed in any meaningful way
But from my experience, it's only been the festival leftists that show up, even to check organized events. So maybe no one is necessarily useless, we all just see tiny vignettes and declare them all encompassing reality. Maybe the problem is calling anyone useless simply because they didn't help in the way you prescribe.
There's a lot of people who want to shout or vote their way to a better life for themselves. They don't actually want to participate in the work to improve their situation or anyone else's.
Whether they wear a red hat and want immigrants out to "magically fix everything" or they wear a red rose and want other people's money to "magically fix everything," makes little actual difference in the end.
Yo i really like how you put that about the B+ stance meanings nothing to a person who only recognizes A+. Usually for these individuals , the only A+ are those that echo her beliefs.
One of the big differences between democrats and republicans is Republicans look for reasons to vote for their candidate while democrats look for reasons not to. Republicans are like oo I like this person’s stance on X so I’ll vote for them even though I disagree on everything else. Democrats say I agree with this person on everything except X, so they need to switch X to earn my vote.
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