So...someone asked online just after I posted that last article, that how can we convince Americans to shift the argument away from red vs blue and culture war issues, to being about class. You do it by just doing it. As I said, the democrats used wokeness in order to divide the democratic party in order to promote their band of economic centrism. Their goal is to keep us so entrenched and embroiled in a culture war with each other, that we stop focusing on the real issues which are the economic ones, particularly those of the wealthy employer class vs the not wealthy working class.
One part of this message stood out, they said, that we need to convince right wingers that trans people and immigrants arent the problem with their lives, billionaires are. And yes, that's the message that we need to convey. And this is what I wanna say to the right. Look, immigrants and trans people, what have you, they're not the problem with America. They're just people who wanna live their lives for the most part. They want their rights, we should give them their rights. And yeah, mind your own business.
Really, why the excessive focus on social issues in the first place? As a right winger, what do you get out of trans healthcare being banned or immigrants being deported? If anything, deporting all of the migrants is gonna cause inflation in grocery prices again, and trans healthcare does nothing for you either way. Here's the lesson we millennials learned about gay marriage. What does gay people living their lives do for us? Nothing. What does it hurt? Nothing. Why should we ban people from enjoying their lives if it doesn't affect us? We shouldn't. But that's the thing. The right, the hard right, they're moral authoritarians, and sometimes we HAVE TO push back vs the right and say "nuh uh, these people are just living their lives and not hurting anyone, mind your own business." And that's our message at its best. We dont wanna impose anything on the right. If the right wants to live their little traditional lives, all the power to them. Get married, have kids, do whatever nuclear family stuff you wanna do. Heck, here's some paid family leave while we're at it, as that's popular for many on the left.
Like, we wanna make peoples' lives better. And we gotta defend against those who wanna make them worse. Yes, we do have to defend people on social issues, but our interest in the culture war is purely defensive. I would love to say we reject "woke" ideology and this wierd cult of caring crap we wanna impose on others. We reject being moral authoritarians ourselves and trying to impose our way of life on you. We just want people to have rights, and you to have rights, and then we wanna make YOUR life better through economic policies that help you. And that's what our message SHOULD be. This isn't rocket science. This was a pretty mainstream left wing position until 2016. And we were WINNING until then. I dont think us losing over the past decade is a coincidence. Our priorities are mismatched with the public at large, and despite what the reddit power mods think, we don't wanna force our way of life on people. So don't force your ways onto us. If we can come to that agreement, we will advance significantly in this country, and get out of this horrific rut where one side are becoming nazis and the other side are basically that but with the complete opposite viewpoints.
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