And not in a condescending way either. But in their honesty, their believability, for their hardships, for the massive epiphanies that they’re on the cusp of having.
I’m in a NE city. And I’d rather hang with these motherfuckers than the smug and superior, insufferable Neoliberal dupes listening to NPR and watching MSDNC, waving blue and yellow Ukraine flags and thinking Hillary lost because of misogyny and Russia.
Yeah, the one guy sits and plays Call of Duty with his wife, and the obsessed Trump gear-wearers and flag wavers are pathetic. There’s some outrageous cognitive dissonance going on. But at the heart of it they really get it that fundamentalists this thing is Wall St Economic Terrorism and capitalism, though they’ve been conditioned to never call it the latter. Having one dialogue in simple, direct language that we can all understand, as Malcolm put it, would certainly make it plain for people.
This thing has enormous revolutionary potential. And it’s also gonna take people getting out of their alienation silos to become cooperative members of a mutual aid society. It’s also gonna take them getting involved in constantly questioning and monitoring all govt and corporate action there, as well as civil disobedience and subversive acts. I hope they have it in them (I keep thinking that some brave protesters shutting down, tying themselves to, the rail tracks would be a good salvo to Norfolk Southern and the government that they’re serious about not letting them get away with this).
I don’t know. Is this just naive idealism?
The US is split 50/50 down the middle in terms of political outlook. Those people whom are politically conscious enough to have a rough picture of the reality facing western economics and politics, regardless of ideology, either hope for something better - or - want to exploit the situation to get rich on the misery of others.
Of the people who don't resort to unrestrained vampirism, while we have different language codes for similar concepts, all taken together, the concepts come to a similar conclusion. Chud codes and concepts are twisted by a pain and anger that comes from experiencing the same situations as we experience, but without the grounding of marxism and solidarity to help process and compartmentalize them.
In my personal opinion, this can make them challenging and unpleasant to interact with, but it doesn't make them totally irredeemable. When push comes to shove as long as we engage with them, some chuds are as likely to become comrades as liberals are to flee to the fascist reaction.