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I find it so hard to have good messaging on this topic because we first have to convince half this country that helping others is a virtue not a weakness. How do we convince a deeply selfish population that helping neighbors and keeping our nation healthy and educated are not “communist plots to make everyone poor” but just basics of a successful society. I can argue politics all day but once someone thinks empathy is a weakness or a sin, I just don’t know what to say anymore. We need a fundamental societal shift and that has to start locally I think.
It is a significant challenge. We absolutely do need to change the culture, and I think that is best achieved at the local level. I think it's a dead end trying to change the culture from the top down, I think we will have much more success building from the bottom up. But, that will require being heavily involved in our communities. That is a tricky proposition for many of us, because some of us live in pretty conservative, even reactionary communities. There's no easy answers here.
One possibility is for leftists to all move to the same state or states, to concentrate our power, to make us less diffuse and spread out. That's a pretty drastic plan, and probably not feasible for a lot of people, but it's one possibility, I suppose.
We should worry about the Right after we get the Left into some semblance of coherence and rationality. Liberals and Leftists should be natural allies against the fascists. Instead we got the Leftists knifing the Liberals in the back this election.
That might be fixable. Compromise between Left and Liberals is plausible. The Right, on the other hand, is not at all tethered to reality. There is no reasoning or compromise with them. They are in full-on batshit wackadoodle land. Addressing them will require something a lot more radical than "convincing".
So you're going to punch left until they agree with your bigotry and never get around to punching right.
Currently? As though it's not the only thing you do.
Well lemmy is a hornets nest of particularly stupid leftists, so yeah, that's a big part of what I do on this site specifically
You think anyone to your left is stupid and admire everyone to your right.
Abuse is the centrist substitute for defensible ideas.
Not anyone to my left. Just anyone dumb enough to enable fascism by rejecting an alliance (even of convenience!) with liberals.
So anyone who doesn't mindlessly fall in line and support everything you do.
You don't want an alliance. You want servility. I get why you're so frustrated. You don't see why servility isn't as easy for everyone else as it is for you.
And now we're at the part where you start making up shit and claiming I say it. Cool cool cool. I think it's nice we usually get 2 or 3 honest exchanges in before you remember your propaganda mission. I've missed that.
You've been lobbing abuse this entire conversation.
You have nothing good to say about anyone to your left, and nothing but defense of anti-trans hate.
Article isn't about the Gaza genocide. But it is nice of you to admit that you literally want to personally strangle every baby in Palestine. Not that you were being subtle about it before.