I wish we could just split the country at this point.
Literally what the controlling donor-class want more than anything.
The more we’re divided, the less chance we have of making unified actions against corporate power and capital.
Do you think they will stop at left-versus-right? Why do you think there’s so much infighting within left and right groups? Agitators are already in our midst driving up contention with rage-bait politics and they amplify the worst positions on both sides of every issue. They want every single American to be alone, inside their home, browsing a shopping feed.
Well most of project 2025 has been implemented so unless we do something soon we are trapped in a christofacist oligarchy for the foreseeable future. The cage is closing
Most conservatives don’t actually want the outcomes from Project 2025 either, they’re just WWE fans cheering for their side, they would switch in a heartbeat if the narrative changed, or if they started getting hurt by the policies that will strip them of healthcare, benefits and wages, and most importantly, vices.
They are not capable of looking down the road at what their choices will lead to, their minds don’t even work that way and we can’t make them work that way no matter how bad we wish they would get smarter or listen to reason and logic.
We have to understand that conservatives broadly are not some overpowered force trying to crush us all, they’re just our population’s segment of armed toddlers. They think 2-dimensionally, they don’t reason or use logic, they react to feelings and stories. We could absolutely take advantage of this and take them back, we could run this whole show if we understood that preaching to them about moral inconsistency or empathy or ideology is never going to work, that they only respond to what they immediately see and feel. The right has been very good about supplying them with these WWE stories with heroes and villains, meanwhile the left is STILL using the same rhetoric and lecturing thinking it will make a dent.
We could change the course of this country if we all got a lot more social, a lot more emotionally intelligent, and a lot less afraid of engaging with people we’ve been taught to fear and hate.
I know because I was raised conservative, I know how they think and feel and I have changed a good number of people with patience and emotional engagement.
I agree. And it goes the other way too. All the posturing by ICE and the AI-generated ragebait from the whitehouse, all just screams “what would I hate.” They’re making really bad moves, unable to understand how others think, feel, or make decisions. We could double-reverse-uno this situation and ask ourselves “what would they think we think?” It could change everything.
and a lot less afraid of engaging with people we’ve been taught to fear and hate.
I think we’re all in more trouble with that than we may realize.
I encountered an instigator on Saturday. I found myself catapulted into a cyclone of rage all because of what he chose to wear: all pro-trump gear. Not because of what he was doing, which was next to nothing, nor what he was saying which was honestly not all that rage-inducing. I couldn’t think, I couldn’t engage creatively, I couldn’t demonstrate effectively, my empathy went right out the window. I just stood there, fuming and stun-locked. And that was one guy. It’s not like me, and I didn’t used to be like this.
I couldn’t think, I couldn’t engage creatively, I couldn’t demonstrate effectively, my empathy went right out the window. I just stood there, fuming and stun-locked. And that was one guy. It’s not like me, and I didn’t used to be like this.
You are beautiful and smarter than you probably even think for recognizing and understanding this. We are ALL vulnerable to the conditions they created.
We are being poisoned, and yeah it’s pretty well set-in at this point because it’s been ramping up for decades, but it’s not natural. It’s not just some consequence of division and politics, this cloud over our ability to engage is manufactured by very powerful systems and groups. They are all around us online, they are pushing our emotional buttons, they are stripping away our attention spans, they are feeding our brains narratives against our will and better reasoning. They do it on the left and right, they take the worst sides of every issue and make us unable to think clearly. It’s strategic exploitation of our human vulnerabilities and tools like AI are going to make it vastly more efficient.
We can’t get the right to understand this is happening, they don’t have minds that work with abstractions and larger issues than what’s in front of them, but we CAN learn to recognize our own feelings and reinforce our sovereignty and use our better minds to change their feelings.
As tired as the analogy is, there is a very real “waking up from the matrix” feeling to realizing how our own brains and feelings have been altered by forces outside of ourselves.
We don’t need billions and billions, we need people who care and want to be involved. It takes each person who wants a better outcome to stop letting themselves get distracted by clickbait and emotional stories meant to make you feel things that keep you from wanting to engage and get involved. It takes everyone who wants a better future to get involved in their communities and engaged with local politics. Holy shit we need to get involved in local politics.
Local judges and mayors and governors and the entire city boards who are supposed to serve and represent us. In most places these seats go unchallenged. They support the whole fetid system above them, they are the reason money has been allowed to rape politics and have sent people like Trump to the seat of leadership.
I say again, there are agitators on both sides of every issue right now, trying to amplify every terrible story and bad take, so that it makes us feel overwhelmed and hopeless. I can’t stress this enough, the feeling you have of hopelessness is manufactured. You can trace back where all these feelings come from and find out which meme, which news articles, which chat you read contributed to you feeling like we’re losing everything. It doesn’t make you wrong or stupid, you are human and these systems are tuned to pry open your particular vulnerabilities.
There are some powerful things you can do. You can hold a yard-sale, and get to know your neighbors. Find out their politics, find out who represents you, find out who is involved in your town’s governing, start absorbing gossip and formulating a plan based on what your community cares about most. Find local progressive groups. Volunteer for https://www.progressivevictory.win/ and help them phone bank or other needed work to get the right people elected in key battlegrounds. You can tell your racist uncle at Thanksgiving that he’s going to lose his weed and porn instead of trying to force him to care about social issues or marginalized groups he will never encounter in his life.
Once the leadership changes, the entire attitude of a society changes. The pendulum is always swinging but over the long arc of history, it averages towards progress. We’re on a backslide but it’s far, far from hopeless. We ARE making progress, but we can’t let up and we have to be more clever and more patient.
MAGA is white trash. …And pick me trash. To be fair. I wish we could just split the country at this point. Irreconcilable differences.
Literally what the controlling donor-class want more than anything.
The more we’re divided, the less chance we have of making unified actions against corporate power and capital.
Do you think they will stop at left-versus-right? Why do you think there’s so much infighting within left and right groups? Agitators are already in our midst driving up contention with rage-bait politics and they amplify the worst positions on both sides of every issue. They want every single American to be alone, inside their home, browsing a shopping feed.
Well most of project 2025 has been implemented so unless we do something soon we are trapped in a christofacist oligarchy for the foreseeable future. The cage is closing
Most conservatives don’t actually want the outcomes from Project 2025 either, they’re just WWE fans cheering for their side, they would switch in a heartbeat if the narrative changed, or if they started getting hurt by the policies that will strip them of healthcare, benefits and wages, and most importantly, vices.
They are not capable of looking down the road at what their choices will lead to, their minds don’t even work that way and we can’t make them work that way no matter how bad we wish they would get smarter or listen to reason and logic.
We have to understand that conservatives broadly are not some overpowered force trying to crush us all, they’re just our population’s segment of armed toddlers. They think 2-dimensionally, they don’t reason or use logic, they react to feelings and stories. We could absolutely take advantage of this and take them back, we could run this whole show if we understood that preaching to them about moral inconsistency or empathy or ideology is never going to work, that they only respond to what they immediately see and feel. The right has been very good about supplying them with these WWE stories with heroes and villains, meanwhile the left is STILL using the same rhetoric and lecturing thinking it will make a dent.
We could change the course of this country if we all got a lot more social, a lot more emotionally intelligent, and a lot less afraid of engaging with people we’ve been taught to fear and hate.
I know because I was raised conservative, I know how they think and feel and I have changed a good number of people with patience and emotional engagement.
I agree. And it goes the other way too. All the posturing by ICE and the AI-generated ragebait from the whitehouse, all just screams “what would I hate.” They’re making really bad moves, unable to understand how others think, feel, or make decisions. We could double-reverse-uno this situation and ask ourselves “what would they think we think?” It could change everything.
I think we’re all in more trouble with that than we may realize.
I encountered an instigator on Saturday. I found myself catapulted into a cyclone of rage all because of what he chose to wear: all pro-trump gear. Not because of what he was doing, which was next to nothing, nor what he was saying which was honestly not all that rage-inducing. I couldn’t think, I couldn’t engage creatively, I couldn’t demonstrate effectively, my empathy went right out the window. I just stood there, fuming and stun-locked. And that was one guy. It’s not like me, and I didn’t used to be like this.
You are beautiful and smarter than you probably even think for recognizing and understanding this. We are ALL vulnerable to the conditions they created.
We are being poisoned, and yeah it’s pretty well set-in at this point because it’s been ramping up for decades, but it’s not natural. It’s not just some consequence of division and politics, this cloud over our ability to engage is manufactured by very powerful systems and groups. They are all around us online, they are pushing our emotional buttons, they are stripping away our attention spans, they are feeding our brains narratives against our will and better reasoning. They do it on the left and right, they take the worst sides of every issue and make us unable to think clearly. It’s strategic exploitation of our human vulnerabilities and tools like AI are going to make it vastly more efficient.
We can’t get the right to understand this is happening, they don’t have minds that work with abstractions and larger issues than what’s in front of them, but we CAN learn to recognize our own feelings and reinforce our sovereignty and use our better minds to change their feelings.
As tired as the analogy is, there is a very real “waking up from the matrix” feeling to realizing how our own brains and feelings have been altered by forces outside of ourselves.
I agree with most of what you’re saying as sad as it is. The problem is to build a counter propaganda platform takes billions upon billions
We don’t need billions and billions, we need people who care and want to be involved. It takes each person who wants a better outcome to stop letting themselves get distracted by clickbait and emotional stories meant to make you feel things that keep you from wanting to engage and get involved. It takes everyone who wants a better future to get involved in their communities and engaged with local politics. Holy shit we need to get involved in local politics.
Local judges and mayors and governors and the entire city boards who are supposed to serve and represent us. In most places these seats go unchallenged. They support the whole fetid system above them, they are the reason money has been allowed to rape politics and have sent people like Trump to the seat of leadership.
I say again, there are agitators on both sides of every issue right now, trying to amplify every terrible story and bad take, so that it makes us feel overwhelmed and hopeless. I can’t stress this enough, the feeling you have of hopelessness is manufactured. You can trace back where all these feelings come from and find out which meme, which news articles, which chat you read contributed to you feeling like we’re losing everything. It doesn’t make you wrong or stupid, you are human and these systems are tuned to pry open your particular vulnerabilities.
There are some powerful things you can do. You can hold a yard-sale, and get to know your neighbors. Find out their politics, find out who represents you, find out who is involved in your town’s governing, start absorbing gossip and formulating a plan based on what your community cares about most. Find local progressive groups. Volunteer for https://www.progressivevictory.win/ and help them phone bank or other needed work to get the right people elected in key battlegrounds. You can tell your racist uncle at Thanksgiving that he’s going to lose his weed and porn instead of trying to force him to care about social issues or marginalized groups he will never encounter in his life.
Once the leadership changes, the entire attitude of a society changes. The pendulum is always swinging but over the long arc of history, it averages towards progress. We’re on a backslide but it’s far, far from hopeless. We ARE making progress, but we can’t let up and we have to be more clever and more patient.
I’m sorry but that is objectively untrue.
https://www.project2025.observer/en
48% of project 2025 has been done, which hardly qualifies as “most”
Speak to me at 51%
48% since the end of January and you’re not concerned? It’s moving at lightning speed
There are still more than 3 years left. Don’t let your guard down until tyranny falls.
Here here good point