A huge barrier to organizing is that people inherently do not trust the concept of government helping people. They can't conceive of it because they've been trained not to expect it.
I don't think most Leftists understand that, and it shows with shit like police abolition/defunding. People are on our side on a lot of radical proposals, but they don't trust us, the Left specifically, because they can't distinguish us from weird wonk nerd Democrats. Obviously the Democrats stir discontent, but we also fall for their bait every time.
Yup, it really boils down to the fact that the neoliberal ideological social engineering project was wildly successful beyond the most optimistic dreams of the likes of Friedman and Hayek. It has successfully produces the homo economicus to the point that ideology is so internalized that the mere concept of state or collective action to mitigate exploitation or mass death has been rendered literally unthinkable.
This applies even to most Leftists. Nobody can conceive of arguments outside of "we're the good people, you're a sinner if you don't listen to us, and oh yeah, the problem with the government is that we aren't in charge". There's never any talk of actually rebuilding institutions or what it takes. The plan always boils down to securing the bag for administrators, media figures, and bureaucrats.
A huge barrier to organizing is that people inherently do not trust the concept of government helping people. They can't conceive of it because they've been trained not to expect it.
I don't think most Leftists understand that, and it shows with shit like police abolition/defunding. People are on our side on a lot of radical proposals, but they don't trust us, the Left specifically, because they can't distinguish us from weird wonk nerd Democrats. Obviously the Democrats stir discontent, but we also fall for their bait every time.
Yup, it really boils down to the fact that the neoliberal ideological social engineering project was wildly successful beyond the most optimistic dreams of the likes of Friedman and Hayek. It has successfully produces the homo economicus to the point that ideology is so internalized that the mere concept of state or collective action to mitigate exploitation or mass death has been rendered literally unthinkable.
This applies even to most Leftists. Nobody can conceive of arguments outside of "we're the good people, you're a sinner if you don't listen to us, and oh yeah, the problem with the government is that we aren't in charge". There's never any talk of actually rebuilding institutions or what it takes. The plan always boils down to securing the bag for administrators, media figures, and bureaucrats.
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