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Btw, I think I can rework a certain essay to answer this --> How Millions of Good People Can Vote Differently Than You Will
The prevailing populist narrative grants the People (of the West) moral innocence by attributing to them utter stupidity and naivety; I invert the equation and demand a Marxist narrative instead: Westerners are willingly complicit in crimes because they instinctively and correctly understand that they {live} as a class (as a global bourgeois proletariat) from the exploitation enabled by their {western hegemonic capitalist base} and their {superstructural/cultural/ruling class} propaganda — organs of coercion and consent. [6] We’re not as stupid as we’re made out to be. This means that we can be reasoned with, that there is a way out.
note:
None of this is meant to downplay the scale of the propaganda project. I’ve spent enough time chasing down leads on different intelligence fronts and their plots to know that they are real and have real effects. [7] I do not deny that the outcomes we observe are at all times incentivized and enforced both overtly and covertly by our various societal superstructures (police, education, culture) and that principled and effective truth-tellers have been assassinated. I reject only the common misconception that propaganda “manufactures consent” (Chomsky) or “invents reality” (Parenti), because it exaggerates the feat accomplished by propagandists, and, in doing so, it obscures the real material basis that has historically made even the working poor in the imperial core complicit.
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The enlightened critic can plead that if we all agreed to denounce the status quo in unison we’d be immensely rewarded, but the average worker in the first world cannot be accused of naiveté for preferring to keep a low profile, particularly after being subject — very often by that same critic — to so many grim stories of murder and of punishment and of how any attempt at radical change always goes awry.
Thanks. I was kinda getting lazy with it again…
“there’s many things Turbo Hitler says that I don’t agree with, but with inflation and everything it just feels like time for a change”
This is like reading someone’s optimistic and totally original Game of Thrones theories before the final season.
Hijacking for something useful.
If just 5% of the general election votes for US POTUS went to a third party, then their platform will be on every ballot in the following election, which would attract a quality candidate.
Assuming that’s a leftist platform, what effect would this have on the two major party platforms and the current ratchet effect?
If a “leftist” political candidate got 5% of the vote, that could force politicians to make better conditions for the working class, but ultimately I think the ruling class could easily ignore it. I also think that spend the money and labor time on running a leftist candidate would be better spent doing almost anything else with the labor and money
If a “leftist” political candidate got 5% of the vote
No candidate or merit comes without prerequisites of ballot access. The platform would have to get the votes despite a low quality candidate.
that could force politicians to make better conditions for the working class, but ultimately I think the ruling class could easily ignore it
A bunch of people just found out that a bunch of others support murder as a means of change. That’s probably because we’ve been denied education. That’s not going to magically disappear because the ruling class sticks their head in the sand.
I also think that spend the money and labor time on running a leftist candidate would be better spent doing almost anything else with the labor and money
I agree. But, there’s a vast majority of people that aren’t going to magically give up on their electoral means. Most of them don’t even understand how the system works.
why such an old article?
Be patient with them, this is a rare liberal Hexbear user in site.
hexbear has to be atleast 50% liberals; i should know, i’m one of them. lol
Hexbear is 100% liberals, I am the only true leftist
But you’re not even wearing plaid!
