it's really cool that a lot of people i know have become politically engaged and semi-radicalized lately. but a lot of them are stuck in this weird radlib purgatory where they correctly recognize a lot of the problems within capitalism and the US but still for some reason think that trump is the ultimate evil and now biden is going to fix those problems

  • charles_xcx [he/him]
    hexagon
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    4 years ago

    well a lot of the people i know went from completely apolitical, "never voted before 2020" to radlibs "we have to beat Trump" as a result of the protests following george floyd's murder. but most of them used to post a lot of "I'm not racist, but..." during the original BLM protests. and I've talked recently with them so I know that they understand what's going on and we agree on almost everything, but since they didn't pay attention before they don't understand how shitty obama was & how useless democrats are so even though they recognize that Biden sucks they truly believe that he can be pushed left.

    but what you said is still true for them, they think that the system just has to be reformed and everything will be good!