seeing many people online "revoking his folk hero status" because he tweeted weird shit and had wacky opinions. idc. he did what none of us have and likely will never do.
seeing many people online "revoking his folk hero status" because he tweeted weird shit and had wacky opinions. idc. he did what none of us have and likely will never do.
And 13 years ago the closest thing to a "radical left" was the Occupy Wall Street crowd. Which were barely even left at all.
Zoom out and look at how things have changed, bit by bit, event by event.
20 years ago over 60% of the country was marching in protest of the Iraq war. Occupy Wall Street was a reaction to one of the biggest economic collapses the country has seen in the past 70 years and came of it? More reaction
= And a budding left that did not exist before, at all =
There is no magic button. This is a process.
What left?