The left has a PR problem. No one wants us to be right, and having political views to the left of Hitler is a good way to be alienated by mainstream society. I'm not saying "sigh, we gotta get more racist." or saying "Look, I AM racist, but..." but what I am referring to is stealing right wing arguments and talking points, then using it in our favor. We already (kinda) defused based, and it was a little funny seeing some nazis claim that's cultural appropriation (never mind that Lil' B, a black guy, came up with the term first).
It sounds semi-promising to use demagoguery ourselves, but if this is a no go: I'd rather just learn that right now.
The left doesn't have a PR problem, it has a not controlling all major media outlets problem. It also has an everyone in the west cares more about shoving copious amounts of cheap corn syrup in their face than anything else problem.
Part of ORGANIZE! needs to be brigading. Exploiting the algorithms is the only hope we have. There's a reason every mainstream political entity has their own botnet and trollfarms. Thinking our ideas are gonna organically be able to compete with that is fantasy. We need more leftist content creators and we need more brigading to get their content in front of eyeballs.
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no offense taken, the point of me saying that isn't an excuse, its just a response to a "PR problem" in the sense that any negative perception of the left is almost always because that's what the bourgeois media is saying.
I generally think that the decline of readership and literacy in the United States is the most precarious cultural shift. Having a political realm dominated by inflection and spectacle gives a lot of weight to unfounded ideologies and assertions.