I keep seeing this trope. It's weird. Every time there's a major crisis, we're supposed to prove our depth by overhauling our worldview? 9/11 changed my priors! Katrina changed my priors! The Financial Crisis changed my priors! Trump changed my priors! The way I see it: you gethttps://twitter.com/ervinde/status/1247289964313878528 …
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the idea that democracies are marketplaces of ideas, and having the best or most correct ideas will lead one to electoral victory, is not a leftist point of view. that is a belief which belongs to the liberal ideology.
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a leftist would argue that western democracies are in fact controlled by capital, and that the forces of capital will restrict the points of view deemed acceptable, and should they fail to do so, marshall all resources to prevent the proponents of those ideas from gaining power.
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Other people disagreeing with you doesn't mean your wrong. Plus, massive propaganda campaigns don't help.
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The democrats have won 50% of the last four presidential elections and won the popular vote in more than that. In 2010 they passed the largest redistribution of wealth in 70 years after winning majorities in all houses.
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The ‘working class’ is not the rural white petty-bourgeoisie that liberals think it is, it’s black and brown service workers. The insistence on defining it as middle aged white men from Ohio who were laid off from the mill decades ago and started a small business in the meantime/
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Comes from liberals, because they subscribe to a culturalist, anti-class based, anti-materialist sociology. So “working class” becomes a purely subjective cultural affect, not an objective class position. Marxists don’t think this. It’s 100% liberal projection
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