They're afraid!
It will take a lot of work, but I think the younger generations are ripe for becoming comfortable with socialism. A big part of that work will be providing essential services that the government does not.
We could probably build a network of doctors that provide effective medical care outside of the corporate healthcare system. Basically an NGO model that operates without state licenses. It would be an independent verification system that takes the role of the state in establishing trust. The biggest opportunities lie in mental health, and healthcare that's banned for political reasons.
One of the biggest problems that will only get worse in the future is addiction. As unhappiness increases, so does substance use, so helping people with those issues will be essential. It's one of the things that hurt the Black Panthers the most. This is a dire need that must be considered a top priority.
We can have an AA model of accountability and support, but another important part of addiction is finding reasons to live. We need to help people become comfortable with themselves, and motivated to brave our terrible world. Socialism can offer answers and a cause, something that's a major part of where people go after recovery.
We need to work in conjunction with religion, not against it. There really is so much demand for mental support that we won't even really be competing. In fact, liberation theology works well with socialism, so having religious allies is essential.
We could also do basic checkups and help people navigate the healthcare system for issues that require a specialist. Simply having an advocate can save a person's life.
This endeavor will cost a lot, so we'll need to have some people who work for wages to support the work of the healthcare providers. We can facilitate sharing of housing and other necessities amongst each other. Society is crumbling, and while terrorizing the wealthy can be helpful, this sort of work will be the true backbone of the movement.
Ask a political scientist you dummy. You're actually being anti intellectual at this point 🙄
Ah, but it supposedly doesn't lead to decreased rights and opportunities! 😉
It was really just an excuse for promoting global capitalism, but most liberals sadly bought into it.
Assuming you're Sapphic, it's like sitting on a girl's lap, only for her to hold you from behind and press her boobs into your back. It's something that others might not notice, but you definitely feel.
The mall Santa thing is a joke.
I'm a blank cube 😞
Not a fan of "permanent revolution," as it has a habit of becoming the new establishment, but you're correct about not conceding or disarming. That's the bed that the right wingers kindly made for us ¯(ツ)/¯
No, neoliberalism is a term created by free market liberals to promote deregulation. It's an actual ideology that dominated from Reagan until the Great Recession, when its practices began to fall out of favor with the right and left. Trump was the break away from it, explicitly opposing everything to do with liberalism. Biden moved away from it towards the social liberalism of the past, but it was too little, too late.
One of the "best" ideas from neoliberalism was for economies to become mutually dependent on one another. The idea was to deregulate and remove trade barriers so countries would specialize in what their unregulated economies excelled at. Unfortunately, this deregulation made life worse for the workers, driving them away from liberalism and towards populist alternatives.
If the country was lucky, socialism would win out over fascism, but the owning class naively thinks that fascism would benefit them more than socialism. They don't understand that their selfish bullshit rots the foundations of society, ultimately making everything worse for everyone.
Neoliberalism fell out of favor globally, as shown by Biden's doubling down on nationalistic trade practices, but liberalism is corrupt enough on its own.
Socialism is not immune to monarchist or capitalist takeover, and the Democrats are not far right in this backwards ass country. They're the big tent of liberalism, which is right wing, but not as right wing as I wish it was. It's a distortion to believe that this country will democratically choose socialism. They're too invested in selfishness for egalitarianism.
They don't care what the public thinks of them.
Powerful technology makes full defense nearly impossible, and offense much easier. It's why guerrilla forces can strike hard against the most powerful militaries on earth; why no tank armor can ever withstand handheld weapons; why mutually assured destruction is the only strategy against nuclear armed nations.
Murder isn't fun, but someone sacrificing their future to put fear into the hearts of the rich is good. They've taken away any hope of reform to stuff their faces with more fruits of other people's labor. They're to blame for Trump, both the ones who supported him, and the ones who held back the Democrats from basic social democracy.
They made sure we can't live healthy lives, so we need to make sure they can't either. They took our futures, so we must make sure they can't buy one for themselves. They need to wake up and realize that they're on this sinking ship with us. You need to realize that they'll never help until there are more costs to not helping.
So you're a Kantian deontologist?
There is no rule of law when legal change stops being an option. Like when cops kill people for being brown, this is an act of terror. It's not ideal, but neither is capitalism that will never be peacefully stopped.
The cycle isn't a century long, but 80-90 years
I think that's too inefficient and pointless. It'd be easier to just fix our bodies when they have problems. We'd just regrow and replace everything as long as possible. Hacking the aging protocol is also important.
Carbon based machinery!
He knew it too. When Gandhi got imprisoned, his movement turned violent. If you don't listen to the peaceful protester, you'll get the angry rioter.