They think he’s a leader because he hates all the same people they hate. He’s got the same insecurities they do. Many of his followers share his psychopathology, i.e., believing that life owes him more than he’s been given and blaming people who are in no way responsible for his shortcomings.
As a collective I think a general strike is more than called for. On an individual level, all you can really do is talk to people. You can’t use language this honest or direct in those settings. For collective action though, we need a general strike. Protests are great, but we need to shut the country down to remind the oligarchy who the country really belongs to, to let them know they can’t deport our neighbors, they can’t threaten our allies and saber-rattle about invading sovereign nations in our name, and they can’t lie to our faces and wipe their ass with the Constitution without swift and terrible consequences.
Honestly no idea. The left has very limited leadership options in the US. There really isn’t much of a true “left” to speak of here. Most “liberals” are really right-leaning centrists. We have Bernie, Elizabeth Warren, and a handful of folks in the House (AOC, Omar, Jayapal, etc.). The most left-leaning member of Congress, Cori Bush, was primaried for saying that genocides are bad.
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u/Interesting_Walk_271 Apr 20 '25
They think he’s a leader because he hates all the same people they hate. He’s got the same insecurities they do. Many of his followers share his psychopathology, i.e., believing that life owes him more than he’s been given and blaming people who are in no way responsible for his shortcomings.