https://twitter.com/SocialistNY/status/1599139288389939200

https://twitter.com/SocialistNY/status/1599421220143140864

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    • 420blazeit69 [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Some people will double down, some will ignore it, but some will come around, even if not immediately.

        • 420blazeit69 [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          :sankara-bass:

          We can never stop explaining, and all that.

          I agree that the group who will come around after that sort of conversation is a minority, but I think it's a significant one. The last several years (since about 2015 in the U.S.) have seen a generational explosion of interest in the left. And it doesn't stop at free healthcare -- it's deep enough that we're seeing members of congress talk about imperialism and media-savvy gulf dictatorships use that language to defend their sovereignty. Neither of those are "real," international leftist sentiment themselves, but they reflect a growing segment of the imperial core's left that will go that far.

            • 420blazeit69 [he/him]
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              2 years ago

              A lot of those folks simply haven't thought through their stances on foreign issues to the same extent they've thought through their stances on domestic issues. They aren't intentional social imperialists; they just pay less attention the further away an issue gets, which means they fall back on the Democratic Party line or at best "this country is bad but we shouldn't get involved."

              In short, they're reachable. If we can't move those people in the right direction, how are we going to build a mass movement?