Realizing that my state is going to receive an influx of genocidal conservatives in the near future
Keep in mind that changes in their material conditions will also change their politics. These people, particularly the ones who end up worse-off from it, will be very capable of a sudden leftwards shift and their predisposition to being anti-liberal makes it easier to reach them if they’ve had genuine trauma caused at the hands of capitalists.
These people, particularly the ones who end up worse-off from it, will be very capable of a sudden leftwards shift and their predisposition to being anti-liberal makes it easier to reach them if they’ve had genuine trauma caused at the hands of capitalists.
The real problem, honestly, is that to these people Liberal=Marxist, and I’m not sure how much that specific misconception would be shifted by their lives getting more difficult.
It’s a surprisingly effective thought-terminator that stops people from actually coming to coherent conclusions about anything.
Imagine being Alaskan and seeing the flood of lower 48ers constantly immigrating in and bringing their shitty southern culture up with them.
Also FYI if you’re not from Alaska, to an Alaskan, you’re a southerner regardless of your orientation to the mason-dixon line.
