“This is brilliant,” said author Naomi Klein in response to new United Auto Workers ad. “It’s also the message we need to be sending non-stop.”
“This is brilliant,” said author Naomi Klein in response to new United Auto Workers ad. “It’s also the message we need to be sending non-stop.”
Class war > Culture war
It’s why it’s never talked about in corporate media. It’s why the power brokers were terrified by occupy Wall Street but not by BLM 10 years later. There were poor white Republicans who were into Occupy seriously. Then the left broke into a purity race and instead of aligning around economics. I’m never sure who is more stupid, the right for taking easy answers to complex problems and eating loads of horrific shit up, or the left who is too fucking stupid to take the massive advantages they have in economics to unite a critical mass and take power back in a meaningful way.
They weren’t terrified by BLM because it was coopted by libs the same way Occupy was, but much faster.
Once they saw protesters kneeling with the same cops that would be kettling them in a few hours and “abolish the police” get drown out by “well they need more funding for training”, everyone knew BLM was cooked.
Culture wars are created to pointlessly divide and distract, yes. However, I too often see people using that line to diminish the importance of speaking out for minorities under attack
We must stand together in solidarity for all and fight for the working class
Thanks for succinctly making my point. My post is how economics unites all kinds of people and is something they inescapably share, and how it’s a true driver of change–you then say “yes, but” and mention minorities under attack.
The democrats have shown and highlighted the human rights, discrimination, disadvantages, abuse and fucked up experience of minorities in the US for decades…and how would you say that has gone? They’ve lost incredible amounts of policy ground since the mid 20th century while still having moved to the right.
To achieve meaningful, systemic progressive change in the US the left needs to bring more centrist and center-right Americans into supporting progressive policies. Centrist and center-right, white Americans, as has been (sadly) statistically shown again and again do NOT identify with minority groups under attack and the approach to focus the discussion on abused groups makes them vote for someone like Trump who tongues their insecurities in a changing world. These groups DO identify with economics; healthcare, retirement, overtime, inflation and many other things that the democrats have a slam dunk on–and the Dems keep playing right into the culture wars the right is using to drive culture wars, which keep the middle voting Republican.
Note; the above is not my preference, what I think is right, or how I wish the world should work. I wish photos of imprisoned children kidnapped from migrants motivated white centrists to think the Republicans and fox news are fucked up. I wish statistics on police violence vs. minorities made centrist Americans ashamed and pushed them to support police reform. I wish many things. But they aren’t the way the voting has gone, and the Democrats approach to identity politics has been disastrous. None of the above is meant to communicate in any way that abuse of minorities is ok, but rather to say that Democrats need to focus on abuses (economic) that are universal and easier to identify with for centrists.