It's pretty frustrating to listen to. It seems like after Bernie's campaign failed CTH had a general consensus that electoralism is a dead end, but Virgil has doubled down on it. I listed to a recent ep (because I'm a masochist) and it started with BJG talking about how the Royal Family bullshit matters and leftists who say they don't care are being performative. Then they had some SuccDem guest who was arguing that $15 min wage didn't happen because there weren't enough activists protesting. DC is on lockdown, where would they even protest? And that's assuming that politicians care about protests at all, especially the Manchins and Sinemas.
its because neither BJG or Virgil or most of their guests are on the ground, organizing around these issues. they have nothing to contribute to the discourse, because they have half information and arent applying it // all they do is use their platform to react to pop issues and theyre making about 15 k a month doing it // cant even be bothered to bring actual organizers on the show and seem more interested in showing off their celeb connections. tbh i am jealous they got to talk to ice cube though just from a pure "i grew up black in the 90s and wouldve loved to talk to ice cube" angle
It's pretty frustrating to listen to. It seems like after Bernie's campaign failed CTH had a general consensus that electoralism is a dead end, but Virgil has doubled down on it. I listed to a recent ep (because I'm a masochist) and it started with BJG talking about how the Royal Family bullshit matters and leftists who say they don't care are being performative. Then they had some SuccDem guest who was arguing that $15 min wage didn't happen because there weren't enough activists protesting. DC is on lockdown, where would they even protest? And that's assuming that politicians care about protests at all, especially the Manchins and Sinemas.
its because neither BJG or Virgil or most of their guests are on the ground, organizing around these issues. they have nothing to contribute to the discourse, because they have half information and arent applying it // all they do is use their platform to react to pop issues and theyre making about 15 k a month doing it // cant even be bothered to bring actual organizers on the show and seem more interested in showing off their celeb connections. tbh i am jealous they got to talk to ice cube though just from a pure "i grew up black in the 90s and wouldve loved to talk to ice cube" angle