Recently I was talking to a buddy of mine about how shitty and inadequate the dems response to the whole USPS thing is and how everyone should be resisting encroaching fascism way harder and his response was basically “lol people voted for fascists what do you expect them to do ¯_(ツ)_/¯”. Like real talk how the fuck do you combat brainworms like this? “Sorry sweaty we can’t fight fascists unless we follow the rules”

He has good instincts any time I manage to frame something in a way that doesn’t trigger the neoliberal narrative he’s been fed his whole life, like when I laughed at people concern trolling over that wendys and he totally agreed it was shitty and dumb to be more concerned about that than the lives of people being murdered. But as soon as I try to expand that consciousness beyond generally dunking on wealthy elites and into a more broad and systemic understanding of how wealth and material interests contribute to all of this, especially if I ever criticize the dems and their place within it, he just shuts down and repeats muh electoralism shitlib talking points.