There are lots of wrong things with this country, where do I even fucking start, but this really bothers me. I've been a bit involved with a little cool local BLM-affiliated organisation that grew a lot during the Floyd protests. They aren't exactly Maoists, but their politics were about Bernie level which is definitely good enough in this god forsaken country. Guess what? The white founder and de facto leader has suddenly erased every anti-police post from the Instagram feed and posted a Kamala dance celebration instead. Literally everything in this fucking coutnry is a grift, I googled an old BLM activist "friend" who got grifting work in an ultra lib congress campaign, no BLM posting anymore as well for them. This endless grifting culture is genuinely making me crazy, how the fuck do we deal with this? Look at the Bernie campaign, I'd say that more than 75% of the leading campaign figures have exposed their ultra grifting.
Yeah, this is why the (decades long) project of building union power is so important. Union dues are what pays for actual leftist activists in the countries that have a developed left tradition--without them the incentive to go lib is just too big.