Reminder, you can't force people to care

 So, this is a battle I've staked out before, and it's a hill I will "die on" metaphorically. Liberals, leftists, anything in between, you can't force people to care. So many people on the left are responding to the election by getting self righteous about "checking your privilege" or going on about how people who voted trump are evil because stopping racism/sexism/insert phobia here aren't deal breakers or whatever, and uh....congrats on missing the point. 

Look, I'm being REALLY aggressive now because I've kinda been holding this crap in all election cycle, but post election, I'm gonna come out and say it. STFU, your self righteousness is why we lost. I'm so sick and tired of the social justice bull#### and all the shaming our side does. it's all we've been doing for EIGHT PLUS YEARS NOW, and look at where it got us. 2 losses and a milquetoast win that led to our second loss four years later.

If you want people to vote for you, you gotta materially improve their lives. lecturing and condescending to people about your morality just shows how fricking out of touch you are. No one fricking cares about this crap, and this election proves it. And you know what? Part of me is glad no one cares, because I'm sick and tired of this social justice taking over the left. Seriously, it's time for you guys to go away and give the reins back to someone who knows what they're doing, because you sure AF don't.

Seriously, improve peoples' lives, it's that simple. it's BAFFLING how out of touch the left has gotten over the past 8 years since Bernie's original run. And a lot of it is this insular ideological crap and the social justice cult of caring nonsense. You guys have lost touch with people, and the people responded by kicking you to the curb come election day. I can't say I like trump winning. heck, I'm just as terrified about trump as the rest of you, quite frankly, but at the same time, I can't help but say that I told you so from the beginning. This crap is toxic, stop doing it. The left needs a new ethos based on populism and actually focusing on issues that motivate them to vote. Not this insular social justice nonsense. 

Really, "you can't force people to care" isn't even just a self righteous rant of mine against you guys, it's literal reality. People aren't going to go out of the way and care about specific issue just because you try to bully or shame them to. You end up just driving people away from you. All this lecturing about how the bad "isms" arent deal breakers and blah blah blah privilege just reeks of "are we out of touch? no, it is the voters who are wrong." No, YOU are wrong. 

Now, that doesnt mean I agree with the voters. But in 2016, I saw trump winning as a cry for help, and I can't help but interpret 2024 the same way. There is something seriously going on with america for them to elect this clown faced fascist again. Yes, a lot of voters are stupid, but a lot of voters have been perpetually dissatisfied with the economy since the great recession, and a lot of voters have been dissatisfied with the republican party. Take it from me. The only thing stopping me from joining these people is im too smart and educated to elect a fricking fascist. But the problem is, most arent too smart and educated to do that. heck, they just proved they will do that, again.

It's like the 1930s, the last time we were here. The way to stop fascism is to materially improve the lives of the people, where they don't WANT to elect psychos like trump. I really do think that trump is a cry for help, a brick through the window again, and we need to LISTEN, not  condescend about how the metrics say the economy is fine and the voters are stupid and look at how moral I am. Stfu, no one cares about your morality. If they did, we wouldn't be in this situation in the first place. 

You can't force people to care about your crap. You gotta meet voters where they are. We on the left have forgotten that. And we better relearn it or we will keep losing again and again until we get the message.