>>496586>realisticallyI'm going to preface my answer with some context that I think is helpful. One crucial problem is that the reality, and socialists desperately need to admit this, necessitates actions which don't necessarily seem
realistic. Many on the right admitted it a long time ago, but unfortunately people on the right, who see one aspect of this, struggle to grasp the full picture because many of them do not have an entirely materialist analysis of what's going on - tbf materialist understanding was rare in the 21st century American "left" too until very recently, which is how so many people were fooled by Obama, and why so many are still fooled by DNC sheepdogging and "lesser evilism." Nevertheless, there's a growing segment of American leftists who look at American politics, the mainstream electoral system, with an appropriate amount of cynicism, emphasizing the material/financial interests, party structures, class, system of bribes, etc. over
what people say. A seemingly infinite feed of disappointment, for me, has been watching MAGA people, a number of whom have a clearer understanding of the evil being done to Palestinians and the idiocy and greed of the US war machine than a lot of non-conservative liberals do, and many of whom even broke with Trump over this, still falling for demagogues, still not taking a clear-eyed stance when they see more posturing zionist-backed "nationalists" running around trying to do pogroms against brown people. They, unfortunately, are still in a cycle of falling for it, hearing words that appeal to them and thinking it's the real fix, hearing Tucker Carlson claim there are reasonable voices within the American executive branch, which has been virtually hand-picked in its entirety by military-corporate oligarchs, zionists, and landlords (the Venn diagram is a circle), and
really believing him because
he also says a lot of things that are true which other mainstream pundits would lie about.
And yet, still, one advantage that the American right
does have over the American left is their willingness to face one fundamental reality more readily, the reality that violence and preparation for violence is a necessary solution for any situation this dire; what's extremely unfortunate is that they often are prone to strike out li
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