Thread by @atatimelikethis

I have a new theory somewhat based in US voting psychology.

Contrary to popular belief we are not one species* of human but two.

In our ascedency through evolution all but two paths died out.
All but two.
They werent hunters and gatherers.

*Shush metaphor. Not racial point

Confronted with wild beasts we separated into those who took fear and ran fast enough not to be last vs those who helped each other to domesticate.

Selfish fears vs cooperating to build are the two incompatible humans at the centre of every modern conflict we have.

How self serving.
How virtue signaling.
Vegan. Millennial. Socialist climate change conspiracy, avocado eating, feminist trans Hilary Clinton
mock the crypto fascists.

Because the whole thought of this interpretation creates... fear

Not macho gun totin family securing freedom

If you thought this was an anti right rant, you were wrong. Fear psychology is so proven that you have to be Anne Coulter levels of denial to attempt to counter it with "alternatives".

Immature

No liberals, socialists, wets. YOU'RE THE PROBLEM. And worse. You're two of them.

Righteous indignation. Thy name is the defensive left. Admit it, it immediately reacted?

Defensive?

Anger?

We're the good guys. How dare you?

And yet my friends, notice that is a fear based illiberal reaction?

The Liberal says, "Interesting. How did you conclude that?"

Look at your clothes

No. Not dem clothes.

DEM clothes

When did you descend so completely into the honey trap politics of the right that fear, intollerance and hatred became your plan?

When did you decide that factions focusing on extreme over reaction was electable?

Some Einstein thought experiments, because sure as tax evadera, that's the sort of rigorous fact based stuff we should do, whilst the populists fake promises on the right.

It's like you had to hate on neo liberalism bathwater so much that you threw out the scientific method baby

Thought experiment 1

The competitive advantage of your opponent is to use tribalism to identify groups that are
1. causes of the problem (Muslims/Jews) and
2. dangerous idiots allowing them to go uncontrolled (you)

Do you
a) join in
b) play a different game - build future hope

Yeah you're all Bs right?
No. You're all BS

Like seriously. You're the ones with facts right? Read some history.

1970s Class Warfare Failure 101

1. Causes of the problem (Generic or Specific well off, rich) and
2. Dangerous idiots allowing them to go untaxed (the right)

Thought experiment 2.

The declared strategy of your opponent is shock Bannon 101. Say something so outrageous your opponent over reacts, delighting the crytpo base. Lies win votes on the right.

Do you
a) Delight in falling for it every time
b) wise up and become electable

More BS?

[Side note. I'm a British handle so this is our perspective but if you're a US reader, pick your own devisive over reaction that ensures you're never elected.

The dream of the bright socialist egalitarian future. Siren's call. Wax & rope or you're dead on the rocks]

Summary

YOU - working for the good of all YOU use

A fear based strategy of demonisation
proposing policies and leaders loved by the base but generally unelectable?

Nuance UK
A) policies aren't too bad
B) so fracture progressive
C) and find scare the horses unelectable leader

Ok the GIF. But, damn it, I see how you got here.

Empathy.

Blair, neoliberalism, austerity, wealth gap, true injustice, climate change denial, homelessness, soup kitchens.

So seductive to go workers paradise.

Except. 2 Humans
Your base is never the majority, esp on the left.

I see the counter arguments, but they're as immoral and self defeating as the Bankers they attack.

It is stupidly easy for precocious Guardian journalists to defend great socialist hopes for the future. It's the dream right?

And in so doing imorrally ensure the dream dies.

So, apply the objectivity that has failed us so monumentally in our rejection of neo liberal progressives

You need 51%
First past post takes that to 40s
But progressive is split between Labour, Lib dems, Greens, and SNP
Your choice of leader polls last after anyone else.

Congratulations.
You're a protest movement.

Except worse.

We are well on our way to making this fine, lovely, upstanding Lady, a Mary Poppins compared to what INACTION enables. That's criminal

[pause] you weren't wrong. let's agree you were right and the world has changed

If you fail to act now, you will enable.

1. A Tory Crypto cabal
2. Purged of Wets
3. Liberated from Human Rights constraints
4. And European Common interest
5. And international environmental obligations
6. Run for asset strippers and tax evaders
7. Who own most of the press

How dogmatically wedded to the dream do you need to be to want to continue to risk that? FFS dream next year.

How sycophantic are you to pen the solution is moving further into the wilderness ignoring née defending unelectability of leadership? Propaganda not Journalism

Solutions. Short List
How the fook you do it is the real politic ask of all time. But preferable to Hell

1. Lab, Lib Dem, Greens, SNP, Plaid Cymru. One voice, pro EU. Pick pact/alliance/etc.
2. Find an electable leader(s) who can win marginal voters
3. Do it all before the GE

So fooking naive to think anything like that could happen right?

Welcome to the Second Coming.

This time. Completely unrestrained, funded and owning the newspapers.

And playing the crypto fascist handbook.