Sanders's lost disillusioned us all in some way, but even now you can still see some people hooting for CTH to insert itself into the conversation about every left-ish movement. And I feel like among these people, only a small number believes that CTH has some kind of big, real-world impact. The majority just want to hear the hosts' takes and make it their own takes. They are relying on CTH to think for themselves. I just want to ask these people why do they take the podcast this serious, especially after they have been wrong many times.
I love to tune in every week and hear my large nephews mispronounce SAT words
TBF I am pretty sure Felix once said Bernie was our off-ramp to a quieter destruction. Which I disagree with, but I kinda get the point that Bernie had the potential to scuttle the ship with fewer nukes. As Bernie turns hard into the dem party line the more I doubt this. Though they did say a few eps ago that they where wrong about Bernie, took them way too long, but a few seem to think the campaign was weaker than they had previously thought. The other day they said something angrily about how Bernie has sold their contact info off to every fascist liberal hawk and it wasnt in a very joking manner.
I wasn't involved back then, but I cant get over how much better the 2016 campaign seems to have been
Yeah the avoid criticizing opponents thing is part of why I didn't volunteer. I still think I should've for the experience, but it gave serious pause. West set up a party for him and he really should have taken it, as it stands any BS "insurgent" energy is not only gone, but sold off to the dems. Even thoroughly infiltrated CPUSA was more useful in the 1980s as it at least was outside of and not beholden to the DNC. Bernie was a unique once in a generation opportunity, not for change but for at least organizing something, and it was all squandered.
This is why they’re wrong . Bernie wasn’t the “last off ramp to destruction.”
Recently, they updated to being Gaddafist and are hoping for an officer coup :admiral-biederman: :gaddafi-happy:
This is why they’re wrong . Bernie wasn’t the “last off ramp to destruction.” He would have governed fairly similar to Biden, which you can tell since he keeps pretty quiet on criticizing his “good friend” and because he wouldn’t have had the political capital to do anything worthwhile anyway.
Agreed, Bernie would have many similarities to Biden. Also, the closer we get to any concession, the resistance from Capital would increase. Any off ramp to destruction would inherently lead us closer to the same destruction we are trying to avoid. My opinion, revolution is a mind fuck but the only path out.
Please share the take if you remember it. I don't want to look too closely at any more superhero slop and podcasts and streams are too tedious for me to listen to.
i don't think it has an impact, i just like my funny commy podcast. by virtue of their top spot in their genre, they're free of the constraints of having to imitate the style and positions of everyone else which allows them to be more sincere and creative.
It's The Daily Show with Marxist dog whistles is all. It's pretty funny
I'm not sure who "Feelix" is. Will is a media personality whose voice reminds me of doing dishes. I will be serving in Matt's Acid Maoist splinter group when the continent balkanizes.
Well, when I found them I was a social democrat (first ep I listened to they were shitting on Warren, and I was like "she's just as good as Bernie, right?"), and listening to them pushed me to be at least some kind of socialist. So I will always be grateful to them for that.
I stopped listening in large part because they seemed lazy and directionless and I could not stand Amb3r's class reductionism. But now Amb3r is gone and they do seem a lot sharper now, so I've gotten back in a bit.
I'm the same age as Matt, and with how leftist spaces skew younger than me I do like listening to someone who, from a passage of time POV, has similar experiences to me.
