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Link so y’all don’t call me a lib again.
They also like V*ush. Think “eat the rich” is a metaphor for taxation. And say Tankies turned them from Anarcho-Communist to a Neoliberal. Think the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact meant the Soviet Union was fascist. Like, okay, how fucking twisted do your priorities have to be that you dunk on a state that hasn’t existed for 30 fucking years instead of, you know, your own state that is currently involved in who know how many fascist conspiracies. And that’s it. I’m not going any deeper into their timeline. I’m too tired.
I don’t see this. A ton of people who started moving left with one of the Bernie campaigns are now farther left than those campaigns. Doesn’t that suggest that those campaigns were effective at eventually leading people to a better understanding?
I should think these things through a bit more before posting lol.
Let’s not get carried away here! Posting from the hip is the only way to fly.
And you’re right, the Bernie campaign itself didn’t lead people to the left of it. What it did was provide people with an easy first step down the path to leftism, and put them in contact with people who could take them another step, and then another. Getting people even to that position is extremely difficult, so for me the Bernie campaign was an enormous net positive.
What’s a ton, 1000 lbs? So maybe 5-7 grown adults?
If we count people in terms of biomass, yeah, I’m going to say potentially 10s of thousands of tons of people or more are further left now than where his campaign was in 2016-2020, which largely amounted to taxing rich people more to pay for free college and being friends with Joe Biden but having “very different plans.”
Yes, a ton. Obviously we don’t have a mass movement yet, but there are almost 100,000 DSA members now (and the DSA itself gives Bernie a lot of credit for that) and probably two or three times that many people who are to the left of Bernie but unaffiliated (or affiliated with a different org). And they’re not just members as a bit – the DSA has actually put people in federal, state, and local offices. There’s something we can work with there, and it’s growing.
