So my dad used to be a cool guy, carried Mao's red book in college, and an FBI guy even offered to sell him some explosives one time, but over the last 40 years, cable news has melted his brain. He's a lot closer than most of your lamer dads, but I still find myself arguing not with him, but with the cable news channels that have colonized his brain.
The current argument I'm having is a rather difficult one: His contention is that America is a lost cause not because it's a genocidal colonial project, but because there's just too many gosh-darn racists who would rather vote against their own interests to be racist, rather than the clearly-better democrats who promise them... something.
My counter-argument is that these racists could be won over should a meaningfully materially-based politics emerge to sway them. So my argument has to be that both A) the democrats are not sufficiently material in their politics and that B) people that vote for racists would rather vote for positive material change if they were offered it.
I know this is pretty niche, but I feel like his argument just leaves no hope against a reactionary blob in the middle of our country, bumpkins that could never be saved, so I'm looking for any podcast/article to refute it.
Maybe point out that fred Hampton organized racists whites by showing them it was possible to fight for their own interests without mediation. "We're not going to be marching around in circles."
This is how Democrats keep people from moving left. If they convince you a section of the working class is irredeemably evil, then you're less likely to seek out class solidarity. Non-chuds who are fed up with the status quo get tarred as 'deplorable' and liberals now have a reason to no longer empathize with them.
Unironically reforming old people with cable news brain is a service he provides, he's giving them even more crank content than the networks and they can't resist that.
I would have to agree, Jimmy does a pretty great job of attacking Democrats from the left.
i haven't read much of gramsci, but i feel his analysis of cultural hegemony could be useful here?
He could easily be a racist conservative shithead who melts his brain with Fox News and Breitbart instead, so I'd suggest counting your blessings. Nobody wants their political ideology to be changed by their kid.
