Spent last night arguing with my liberal friends about Dems failing to pass min wage. Argued from the center left. Said Dem leadership needs to get its shit together and start getting the party in line. Otherwise theyre getting bodied in 2022 and never getting back in. They flipped out on me. Saying I was advocating for them to be just like Trump and the republicans.
Ive genuinely given up on them. I just dont get it. I dont know what to do. We're all queer and disabled. One of them constantly goes to protests and participates in her community. This wasn't even one of my hard left points. Like how the Dems are all psychos. Or the entire system is rigged. It was a genuine good faith argument about how the Dems need to change or we're gonna die. Im at a loss. How can you fix this?
I don't know what the 2nd step is, but you have to get them to stop watching cable / broadcast / local "news" first, otherwise whatever they learn will be drowned in the deluge of distraction and garbage analysis.
One way to fight the influence of corporate media without requiring them to unplug completely is to get them to read something like Manufacturing Consent or Inventing Reality. Hell, get them to watch one of the yellow Parenti videos on the subject.
Show them the bias and it'll be hard for them to unsee, even if they're still watching garbage.