Political Memes

I agree that the left has some massive problems in it's ever-so-perfectly-inclusive ranks, but to me "far left" means tankies and the like, basically other authoritarians that yes, reflect MAGA with different wallpaper. (Tankies, if you want to correct me on theory, go ahead so I can block you.)

But the problem is less to do with moderate or extreme leftism, and more to do with lack of organization or actual desire to seize power.

The right is winning in this country because despite moderates not really being involved, they are still largely represented by the liberal, middle-class bloc in America, the people working 6 days a week to afford the newest toys in their suburban cul-de-sac and only watch political news on Facebook and Twitter for 20 minutes a week after getting their kids to school.

This is America's actual resource, these people generate all of our GDP and all of our tax revenue and buy all the newest toys with their middle-class incomes (as long as it lasts.) and they're the people that the whole world is desperately trying to squeeze some cash out of.

These people look in two directions: they look to the left and they see people shitting on the US flag, they see people wagging their fingers about issues that people largely are disconnected from or don't care about, and they hear calls for revolution and radical change.

Meanwhile, they look to the right and they see armed orcs screaming and shooting guns in the air and promising to defend that flag with their lives, and calls for return to simpler, easier to understand culture. The flag and promise of return to stability gives the middle-class their comfort and toys and ability to check out.

The choice is clear why so many people went with the "safe" bet in their minds. They don't want radical change, they just want to afford healthcare and groceries and don't give a shit how we get there. Americans broadly want to be patriotic, and I get tons of gnashing and pushback on this because America has done bad things. I don't disagree, but that changes nothing. People broadly want to support the country they live in, and they will choose people who want to support that direction, and rarely do people actually investigate the reality behind the sentiment.

The left needs to arm up and start strapping American flags all over their ~~trucks~~ subarus and demanding things that people actually understand, like balanced budgets and domestic investment and taxing the wealthy. Most people can get behind this messaging far easier than they will about protecting marginalized groups, but if we can get those broad-appeal projects secured we can easily make sure that people who need protection are covered. People are easy to move once they're comfortable. Make the masses comfortable, give them an easy narrative to follow, then you start securing the place so people stop getting hurt. (Lefties who want to tell me I'm "throwing anyone under the bus" here, go ahead so I can block you.)

The left here on Lemmy especially frowns and cries that voting is useless, that somehow all 50 states are compromised, that we need "armed revolution" and that any candidate who isn't going to do that kind of revolution is worthless.

These people are largely a minority in progressive spaces, but they spark enough debate and outrage that it splinters cohesion and makes the left's messaging broadly fall apart rapidly as everyone competes to be the smuggest and most inclusive person in line for the showers.