Just need to vent, I swear to god the revolutionary potential in America is just not there. So many people just have zero ideological conviction and because we're not subject to the worst of the empire's violence many feel no constant need to fight it, an encampment can end and so many people just go to brunch. The constant need to fight against the empire's propaganda, infiltrated orgs, and most of all the powerful combination of privilege and individualism is so incredibly exhausting. All that feels good to do is sit home, read theory and talk with my closest comrades, I can't be led into another unprepared police raid by people who had just collaborated with the kops, or in an org led ultimately by some undemocratically elected leader, or talk to another "ML" or anarchist white boy that can't even admit racism and imperialism still fuckin exists.
Some politician called the student encampments "little Gazas" they're building cop cities while our actual cities crumble. They are widening the gap between haves and have nots. I never thought I'd see anything like this in America. Its only a glimmer, but in many ways what we're seeing today is aftershocks from the civil rights era. Desegregation and breaking the south African apartheid did some damage. The potential is on the periphery of the imperial core. Marginalized and downtrodden people, the homeless, the enslaved. Whatever happens in America to change things, will start from caring for and about the "dregs of society" and finding ways to guard against increasing fascist violence. ¡Viva LA انتافضة!
I share some of the pessimism, but I direct most of it towards the privileged classes and white people because they're the big impediment here.