We can’t build our lives and our politics around the worries of reactionaries, because doing this is what allows right wingers to shift the narrative constantly. You will always have reactionary responses to these things. Instead we win by the strengths of our proposition, by winning them over despite these grievances.
This is where the Left has failed so many times, because they keep pandering to corporate society. At the end of the day, I strongly believe that — and I’m going to take the United States of America, as an example, because it is quite relevant right now, even though I’m not part of it — the average Joe cares much more about the fact that rent is taking 60% (pulling this number out of my ass) of their income, and that they have to work three jobs, to even pay that rent, rather than the fact that one trans person got one beer can sent to them by a company once.
The failure of the Democrats in the United States of America needs to be studied. Because they failed to appeal to people. Most people voted for them because the opposition was much scarier. But that’s pretty much it. No one really believed in them because the Democrats never really believed in actually changing people’s lives. They were too busy trying to not piss off their corporate interests too much and not appearing too socialist to the right.
They have once again put the interest of the nebulous economy — which, let me remind you, doesn’t actually exist, the economy isn’t a thing, we made it up — rather than the real actual needs of people who definitely are real and are definitely struggling right now. And because of that, you also end up with people who stop believing in politics because every time they voice actual grievances, like the fact that health care is too expensive or whatever, they are being told that their problem would be too expensive to fix. So no one is going to do anything about it.
People voted for Donald Trump not only out of hatred for marginalized groups and so on, even though that played a big part in it, but it’s also because the dude run his mouth constantly. He is always saying some bullshit or whatever, but at least he made it seem like he was going to do something, going to change something, while the Democrats were just too busy sitting on their ass, worrying about what the average reactionary Joe is going to think about if they dare to make any proposition that would be somewhat radical. And they failed because of it.
They dug their head into the sand and screamed “la la la la” every time people questioned them on their bullshit. Their relentless support for Israel was a big one, notably. Just like this person above us, they allowed themselves to be controlled by the right wing which itself was controlling the narrative. They allowed them to do that instead of trying to take control of the narrative themselves. They tried to play a game rigged against them from the start and were surprised when they lost. And when they lost, instead of learning from their lessons because they’re the Democrats, we wouldn’t want that after all, they fucking tripled down and they blamed trans people, even though they never talked about them.
They’re looking at the right wing, and they think we should do that, but our version of it. And they come up with shit like “We need a left-wing Joe Rogan.” And you get Gavin Newsom doubling down on shitting on trans people, and so on.
Meanwhile, people are suffering. And the very people who are suffering from the current administrations are once again being left out of these people’s plans.
Let’s stop catering to the right wing fears. Let’s stop catering to the reactionaries. Let’s stop catering to the corporate interests. We don’t need billionaires to live, not only we can do without them, everyone would benefit from them being gone. The economy is fake, I refuse to give a shit about how the stock market is doing, I don’t care about inflation rising or whatever. All I’m hearing is that my life keeps getting worse and that there are more and more people making sure that it gets worse.
Capitalism is not the natural way of the world. It is young, and it is crumbling all around us, i’m not even 30 years old and I’ve been living my entire life going through what are supposed to be once-in-a-lifetime economic crisis to once-in-a-lifetime economic crisis on and on and to the next. Water is coming through the cracks everywhere. The ship is breaking apart and we’re still pretending that everything is fine because the musicians are still playing, so we can still fix it and move on and reach our destination, wherever the fuck that is.
The entire foundations of our societies are rotten, the economic system on which everything relies on is not only fake, but self imploding. It’s way past time to abandon ship. But instead of doing that we are blaming the “clandestine” passengers who got on board in hope of a better life after their place of origin was completely destroyed and ravaged in the construction of this wonderful ship that we are all on. And while we’re at it, this person is annoying us because they want us to respect their pronouns so everything else that is happening around us it’s actually their fault. Don’t worry, everything is fine.
Nothing else should ever matter than the well-being of this planet and all those who are living on it. People need to hear that the rules aren’t there, that the game is rigged. Because it is. But instead, we keep telling them that, actually no. And it’s just that some people are cheating and making it worse for everyone else. And these people are always those that are struggling the most, of course.
Anyway, did I tell you that I fucking hate capitalism and all of these self-proclaimed left-wing parties that keep catering to its every ask?
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To answer your question, by the way, I don’t really write about theory. I’m not a scholar. I’m just a random bunnygirl on the internet. 🐇
aaa, content warnings pleaaaase, this bunny can’t be exposed to scarification stuff ;____;