I always had some ambient level of disgust with stuff like war, Black Friday, forcing people to work on holidays, and this performative civility with the republicans who allegedly are the worst people ever but we need to be polite. Then I read The Jungle in middle school, then 20 years later I watched as very little changed after handing the country over to a senile casino owner. Turns out the meat grinder is the problem and not which person is turning the crank. McCain’s funeral and the different responses from libs and you guys finally pushed me over the edge.
to pass forwards the own I received last time when I asked that, there is no singular moment of radicalization and its important we don’t fool ourselves into seeing it as a moment rather than a process
that said, for me what really sold me was iowa and then watching the entire establishment contort like a leviathan to super tuesday Bernie
It’s remarkable to see how close this was to my own experience.
I even had a stint in Korea, just like this guy, although mine was much longer. I wish I could say that living in Korea automatically radicalized people, but some people I’ve known who have since come back to the USA are still libs despite being unemployed for years and losing the amazing universal health care they had in SK.
critical theory, especially baudrillard and zizek
