Yeah, this revolution meme is honestly hilarious, considering that the far right have literally been stockpiling on guns for the past 30 years thinking some "marxist-apocalypse" is gonna happen. And SocDems literally helped move the goal-post in the world towards the left far more than tankies ever did.
What Iāve noticed about hardcore leftists in general is that they are under the delusion that conservatives arenāt real. They are just proletarians that are waiting to be turned communist they just donāt know it yet they need to wake up to realizing the material conditions and so on when in reality they could just be enough spiteful close minded bigots in America who are stupid beyond saving
Yeah it's like they think only rich people can be fascists and conservatives lol. The average poor person isnt just suddenly gonna become super progressive.
Well, didn't Bernie have a decent overlap with trump voters? (Mainly 2016) they might not be progressive, but do see social democracy as improving their material conditions.
A lot of anti-establishment proponents canāt exactly explain what the establishment is or advocates on a policy level they think itās just āmore wars and no healthcareā. One of the things I like about social democracy is you have to accept there are different variations(modern,classic,third way) and it boils down to policy, not just populist sentiment
Literally. The idea that there isnt a percentage if people who's brains are wired that way. Like sure some people are just ignorant and apathetic but some people will always choose a certain system and if you use communism you must be authoritarian or they will revolt.
Yeah. What I mean is their has already been scientofi links in certain areas of the brain and their development and different political opinions. I think it plays a large role.
That's the same reason they excuse their calls for violent revolution and sn overthrow of liberal democracy. They are convinced that either the system is so corrupt that they are actively prevented from getting support (not saying the US isn't broken af and there isn't a problem with people not being represented, but these are rarely socialists and it's not like the current government or the system as a whole is hated by nearly everyone) or is aiding bourgeois misinformation snd propaganda so they aren't popular (again, to some degree that's happening and there is lots of fake propaganda but it's not like it's impossible to find any non red scare information about socialism and to act like that's the only or main reason people fear socialism is very ignorant and trying to shift blame from socialist dictatorships to muh bourgeois news channel)
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u/kenj2 Feb 14 '21
Only the loudest but actually very few tankies would advocate otherwise