It's interesting how it was always the more radical left who were the first to demand solidarity with other oppressed people.
Liberalism, not so much.
Yet now, neoliberalism publicly takes on the mantle of "freeing people" and "bringing democracy".
It's a clever trick.
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It doesn't exactly help that most of the left have moved on to ineffectual navel-gazing and internal strife.
It's really pretty depressing.
We don't get to just blame the bigots and profiteers for *all* the issues our politics face.
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They were on the receiving end of a cultural hegemony the likes of which the world could never have imaged possible just a lifetime ago.
I try to cut them some slack, as a group. Many tried hard, burned out, and suffered, badly.
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That is fair.
Definitely been a big changing of the guard. Get the sense that most leftists these days are... very young.
Like me.
Support at the top is very, very sparse. No wonder, when you see what happens to people like Corbyn.
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It's interesting that there are a few prominent old people motivating the young, here and the US.
People who were already middle-aged when neoliberal hegemony began, who know first hand what we've lost in terms of community, & how bad fascism can really be.