Liberals are not materialists. They're not even idealists in the sense of eternal, unchanging principles. They're narrativists. Everything must tell a story, everything must fit a narrative. And not a good, nuanced narrative, or even a meaningful fairy tale. A simple good vs bad justification for the status quo.
Reality is contingent on everything being an easy to follow TV show where you can go get snacks and come back, easily following the plot as long as you remember who the bad guys are.
You know, I think the most sad thing to me is watching all of these libs who were rightfully dragging Biden over things like immigration or Gaza just got right back in lockstep now that they're just going to run Harris instead. Barely any questioning of her views; they're just so overjoyed they can throw everything away and run back to the democratic party without having to do any more critical analysis, with no further evaluation of the party that was perfectly happy to run Genocide Joe (and only yanked him because it was apparent to everyone with a frontal lobe that he was going to lose).
People that are actually questioning this, even people who explicitly state they will vote blue and they think everyone else should as well, are getting buried. Liberals are going even further off the deep end.
For a group of self righteous and self appointed 'intellectuals', they sure do enjoy not thinking.
You're absolutely right. Liberals only start to join us out of despair, and they are self deluding enough that by that point it is usually too late. I'd say a repeated sequence of moderate failures would work, but they don't have long term memory. This is obviously the standard critique of Popular Front politics, but a Popular Front is currently the farthest left of the compass of US political thought.
The essential issue for the US revolutionary left is that they'll never be a majority, yet capitulation gains them nothing. Thus, their goal should be how to force the hand of fate and establish a dictatorship of the revolutionary proletariat, not the whole working classes. I know this might seem like rampant Blanquism, but it's not too far off from Lenin's issue, except instead of "What if most of the working classes are despondent peasants?" it's "What if most of the workers are complacent labour aristocracy?"
Liberals are not materialists. They're not even idealists in the sense of eternal, unchanging principles. They're narrativists. Everything must tell a story, everything must fit a narrative. And not a good, nuanced narrative, or even a meaningful fairy tale. A simple good vs bad justification for the status quo.
Reality is contingent on everything being an easy to follow TV show where you can go get snacks and come back, easily following the plot as long as you remember who the bad guys are.
You know, I think the most sad thing to me is watching all of these libs who were rightfully dragging Biden over things like immigration or Gaza just got right back in lockstep now that they're just going to run Harris instead. Barely any questioning of her views; they're just so overjoyed they can throw everything away and run back to the democratic party without having to do any more critical analysis, with no further evaluation of the party that was perfectly happy to run Genocide Joe (and only yanked him because it was apparent to everyone with a frontal lobe that he was going to lose).
People that are actually questioning this, even people who explicitly state they will vote blue and they think everyone else should as well, are getting buried. Liberals are going even further off the deep end.
For a group of self righteous and self appointed 'intellectuals', they sure do enjoy not thinking.
You're absolutely right. Liberals only start to join us out of despair, and they are self deluding enough that by that point it is usually too late. I'd say a repeated sequence of moderate failures would work, but they don't have long term memory. This is obviously the standard critique of Popular Front politics, but a Popular Front is currently the farthest left of the compass of US political thought.
The essential issue for the US revolutionary left is that they'll never be a majority, yet capitulation gains them nothing. Thus, their goal should be how to force the hand of fate and establish a dictatorship of the revolutionary proletariat, not the whole working classes. I know this might seem like rampant Blanquism, but it's not too far off from Lenin's issue, except instead of "What if most of the working classes are despondent peasants?" it's "What if most of the workers are complacent labour aristocracy?"