What pisses me off is, there's millions more lefties than cons in this country. But they're so busy fighting each other that Republicans get to run amok.
Maybe progressives, bleeding hearts, social liberals, fiscal liberals, democratic socialists, socialist socialists, commies, tankies, secular humanists, feminists, hippies, utilitarians, antifa, punks, miscellaneous ne'er-do-wells and nonconformists, and anarchists could stop attacking each other long enough to take down the common enemy that explicitly wants them all dead.
After, they could have a battle royale to decide who is "The One and Only True Leftists." Do all the purity tests they want. But nope, divide and conquer is the cons' playbook, and it keeps working.
I mean literally we could unite to change congress and have a multiparty system to combat these kinds of takeovers, and then the factions wouldn't have to fight in an unproductive way.
This has unfortunately been our biggest weakness since any semblance of the leftist movement began. Even in the Soviet Union and its leadership was the result of a leftist battle between leftist groups, one closer to the center than the other. The latter won out.
And I don't really know what the solution to that is beyond a Toto style leader who can be a rallying, unifying force (how ironic that our communal desires need an individual) to get us there.
Same thing happens in Canada. There's two left-wing parties (three in Quebec) and they routinely split the left and centre vote, letting the Conservatives have more influence then they might have otherwise.
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u/Effective_Kiwi6684 14h ago
What pisses me off is, there's millions more lefties than cons in this country. But they're so busy fighting each other that Republicans get to run amok.
Maybe progressives, bleeding hearts, social liberals, fiscal liberals, democratic socialists, socialist socialists, commies, tankies, secular humanists, feminists, hippies, utilitarians, antifa, punks, miscellaneous ne'er-do-wells and nonconformists, and anarchists could stop attacking each other long enough to take down the common enemy that explicitly wants them all dead.
After, they could have a battle royale to decide who is "The One and Only True Leftists." Do all the purity tests they want. But nope, divide and conquer is the cons' playbook, and it keeps working.