How it Feels to Read Any Political News these Days
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Years ago in High School, had a fantastic political science teacher
He would be called based today (would also never be hired being a white male). Caucasian, in his 40s, devout Catholic
Was also a football coach, students loved him
He had a Socratic teaching style
I memorably recall one student in the class, super liberal girl, she was the prototype of things to come
She got into an argument with him early on in the school year about Immigration
Her argument was the usual shitlib concept of infinity migrants and what about empathy
He let her go on for a bit about "lets turn bombs into bowls to feed the hungry"
At the end of her rant, he asked her
"I see you're very passionate about this. So what are YOU going to specifically do about it?"
She fired back with a bunch of hypotheticals about what should be done, he cut her off
"I'm not asking what you THINK should be done. I am asking what actions you are going to demonstrably take to make these things happen"
She didn't have an answer.
He left it at that, (and his point was not embarrass her)
He segued into a discussion on objective political action requiring organization, policy agenda, donor funding, getting in contact with actual policy makers and representatives and time invested.
It was educational.
I think back to that conversation. When you see people constantly up in arms about the Current Political Thing giving hot takes and what they wish would happen.
Wishful thinking is meaningless.
"What are you going to do about it?"
I remember this post.
What are we going to do about it? A handful of people rotting away on a dissident internet forum? I guess we could say these things at work and get fired. Or say these things to our family and friends and get disowned. Or we could run for office and be destroyed because we don’t have AIPAC money. Or we could vote for someone who says all the right things, gets elected, and then immediately betrays us. Any other hot ideas, fed?
This is why we can’t have nice things
I think you missed the point. Not what WE could do about it, what are YOU doing about it right now?
No one expects you (an individual) to solve the problem. Rather than think of ways other people could fix it? What are you actually doing to make it even a tiny bit better? Is the point.
Some of us actually do go out and do things about it in the real world, just for people on this rotting forum to call us liars, cultists or insane for talking about it and not instead joining in the doomer circle jerk crying about the state of this world.
Go volunteer with a local big brother program. Congrats you might have just helped turn one kid into someone of value instead of another welfare leech that'll vote Dem for his gibs. Help your own church with its operations. Shit, go become a man worth emulating in your community by being the one that everyone talks to when they need to fix something around their house.
I think your mindset is telling of the problem of why the Right can't win. It only sees politics as the weapon to use to get its way, and fails to actually capture everyday life that those politics can be born from.