I was vocal and terrified about climate change in the 90s (although I didn't do a whole lot). I was super active in the anti war stuff during the war on terror. I said repeatedly that Iraq had no WMDs and that Afghanistan wouldn't go well. I was sorta active during Occupy. I was telling everyone not to buy crypto years ago. And I've been very COVID outspoken from day one.
This post is not to brag about how based I am. I was very slow to get on the correct side of trans issues, and I've said/done enough borderline racist and misogynistic shit. I have enough cringe memories of me being a lib. I've also just been really lazy and selfish.
Anyhow, I had hoped that the right would be so wrong, so badly, that people would wake up and warm to our side. I used to actually do organised debates with different groups at uni. I even sent a few a FB message years after Iraq went to shit (ya I'm petty). None have been like "oh fuck, you were so right want the WMDs". When I'm battling friends over COVID issues or the newest bullshit trans conspiracy theory, THEY FUCKING KNOW I was right about crypto and Elon Musk. It's like, all the Ls that the right had taken are in the memory hole and we're onto the next bullshit idea. I'm still the lone crank that's warning about war with Russia and China and telling everyone to mask when my mates were smoking weed through every horrible murderous mistake the West made.
Sorry if it sounds like I'm whinging for my own sake. I get that the right is very well funded, and that is no individual's fault. I'm just very aware that people around me find me to be a tedious crank, but they're all fucking liberals who've been eating out of the trashcan of ideology their whole lives.
Sometimes the libs will coopt the left position and retroactively pretend it was the lib position the entire time (most dramatic example that comes to mind: the Civil Rights Movement) and that's the best you can hope for.
You can also see it in how fast Liberals starting claiming credit for gay marriage after a decades long struggle by LGBT activists did the hard work of making it broadly popular, and even then they relied on a court ruling that made the issue moot. A little over a decade ago (when gay marriage was seen as politically toxic) Obama, Clinton and the rest were all signing laws stating that marriage was exclusively between a man and a woman.
Now LGBT rights discourse are being used as a cudgel against state enemies while one of America's ruling parties is attempting as much social murder against trans people as they can get away with, and Liberals are doing virtually nothing in response.
Gay marriage was only banned once on the federal level in entire US history. It was done by Clinton and Biden & co.
They can also do it while its still happening, like when they coopted BLM and then removed it from the public discourse
I don't even remember quite where they were during the 2020 uprisings, i just remember that they used "defund the police" as a cudgel for all of 2021.
During the uprisings, they were busy doing performance art and watering down "abolish the police" to "defund the police" which they would then go on to say is too extreme.
Let's get them to co-opt Mao's stance on landlords
Unless I'm mistaken, all we'll need is 5,000 scary guys marching in the street who have a much more extreme stance on landlords than Mao did.
That seems difficult to do
I VOLUNTEER AS TRIBUTE.
That's a good example