Good friend, I'll be spending all day with him tomorrow just the two of us.
He's smart and well-intentioned, but not necessarily politically coherent. He's been YouTube-brained and likes Rogan and the IDW dorks. I think he lost friends on the left through FB posting about Jordan Peterson a few years ago and maybe I'm one of his only remaining left friends.
I'm going to see if he is interested in joining a radlib bud and I in a couple of weeks to discuss State and Revolution, as the rad lib bud started reading it and likes it and wants to talk to me about it.
Best bet is to probably chase down the source of the problem they have with democracy. They've probably realized that liberal democracies as states are neither, watching movement after movement break against the great spectacular rocks of public arrogance and anti-empathy. Helping them work through the contradictions they see by providing better historical and theoretical context is often the best move when dealing with well-intentioned friends. Collaborative, guided thinking.
Agreed, this is my intention tomorrow.
Good concise post with a fun visualisation at the end of it that I'm very fond of.
Ironically the meme that this comment was made in response to is EXACTLY what this friend of yours is currently thinking.