is getting all of the working class in solidarity.
The right has successfully leveraged the desires of the left into tools to radicalize the right. Instead of butting heads with immovable dunces about people they simply don’t care about, we have to make a larger and more concerted effort to leverage this back to a class war.
No, I mean that you can GET all of us protected and restore our freedoms and social respect if we make sure the dumbest segment of the country is focused first and foremost on the idea that their tax money isn’t being used to help them. Simple Bernie-Book tactics that have proven successful because it’s unifying. Every other social issues branches off from that, so lets cut to the heart of our shared problem.
What we have to learn to handle better is when agitators climb into the discussion and say “But the leeeeffft also wants your tax money going into sex changes for immigrants in prison and litter boxes in schools!” and we have to learn to stop getting outraged by those kinds of claims and just shrug. Say “So?” and move the fuck back to why eggs are $14 a carton. I believe our problem isn’t that we’re trying to get basic human rights broadly, but that too many progressives are actually uncomfortable with what that entails and the defensiveness makes it seem like a shameful thing to want. Bullies sense it, they capitalize on it, they want you riled up and hateful.
The right has successfully leveraged the desires of the left into tools to radicalize the right. Instead of butting heads with immovable dunces about people they simply don’t care about, we have to make a larger and more concerted effort to leverage this back to a class war.
I say this and people immediately assume I’m saying “capitulate on rights for marginalized groups” because ya’ll didn’t learn how to read in school and it’s keeping you from understanding nuance.
No, I mean that you can GET all of us protected and restore our freedoms and social respect if we make sure the dumbest segment of the country is focused first and foremost on the idea that their tax money isn’t being used to help them. Simple Bernie-Book tactics that have proven successful because it’s unifying. Every other social issues branches off from that, so lets cut to the heart of our shared problem.
What we have to learn to handle better is when agitators climb into the discussion and say “But the leeeeffft also wants your tax money going into sex changes for immigrants in prison and litter boxes in schools!” and we have to learn to stop getting outraged by those kinds of claims and just shrug. Say “So?” and move the fuck back to why eggs are $14 a carton. I believe our problem isn’t that we’re trying to get basic human rights broadly, but that too many progressives are actually uncomfortable with what that entails and the defensiveness makes it seem like a shameful thing to want. Bullies sense it, they capitalize on it, they want you riled up and hateful.