But that’s my point, the Berniebros were the ones saying that the silent majority would stay at home because they were being berated about Trump being an existential threat. Turns out, the silent majority did need the raised alarms and the sense that they needed to get off their ass, so the allegedly arrogant tand not constructive raised alarms were both effective and necessary.
Instead, a sector of the left assumes that the silent majority agrees with them specifically and doesn’t get the ripples of people raising their voice to say that inaction based on mild dissatisfaction with liberals is a major, major mistake that may take the US past the point of no return. The left keeps making claims that actually no, it’s about making people exicted and hopeful and stuff, which sounds great… except look at the other guy. It’s not exciting and hopeful here, it’s welcome to the rise of fascism, either you keep stomping them down every single time or it’s the last time you get the chance. That’s forever now, until the GOP solves their actual fascist problem. Somehow, this seems to be the centrist democrats’ fault every time an election comes around, but not while the online left is in between bouts of blaming them for the rise of fascism.
So I say again, I am begging people on the left to rise up in between elections and deploy absolutely ruthless pressure to get structural reform that will lock fascists out of institutions. Once campaigning for major elections starts, though, you rally behind the leader, whoever it may be, and keep facists out with whatever tools are available.
And if you don’t do that, then it’s your fault as much as everybody else that is creating the scenario where fascists rule the country. Again. It’s insane that we haven’t learned this lesson yet.
But that’s my point, the Berniebros were the ones saying that the silent majority would stay at home because they were being berated about Trump being an existential threat. Turns out, the silent majority did need the raised alarms and the sense that they needed to get off their ass, so the allegedly arrogant tand not constructive raised alarms were both effective and necessary.
Instead, a sector of the left assumes that the silent majority agrees with them specifically and doesn’t get the ripples of people raising their voice to say that inaction based on mild dissatisfaction with liberals is a major, major mistake that may take the US past the point of no return. The left keeps making claims that actually no, it’s about making people exicted and hopeful and stuff, which sounds great… except look at the other guy. It’s not exciting and hopeful here, it’s welcome to the rise of fascism, either you keep stomping them down every single time or it’s the last time you get the chance. That’s forever now, until the GOP solves their actual fascist problem. Somehow, this seems to be the centrist democrats’ fault every time an election comes around, but not while the online left is in between bouts of blaming them for the rise of fascism.
So I say again, I am begging people on the left to rise up in between elections and deploy absolutely ruthless pressure to get structural reform that will lock fascists out of institutions. Once campaigning for major elections starts, though, you rally behind the leader, whoever it may be, and keep facists out with whatever tools are available.
And if you don’t do that, then it’s your fault as much as everybody else that is creating the scenario where fascists rule the country. Again. It’s insane that we haven’t learned this lesson yet.