It’s hard to forge economic class solidarity when you tell blue collar workers to get bent because they don’t use the right pronouns, are insufficiently woke on every social issue, and are blood-thirsty monsters for wanting to own a rifle for self defense.
Socialists won’t be successful in this country because of intersectionality if nothing else. Your most potentially profitable political terrain — blue collar/union workers — get pushed away when they’re insufficiently woke or radical on everything else unrelated to economics.
Sure Bob the Garbage Man wants to stick it to the rich but whoa boy he called the transgendered politician “she” instead of “they” and doesn’t want to give up his rifle, so he’s a transphobic Nazi gun lobby shill monster who has no place in this movement.
Charlene agrees with us on every major economic issue and would crawl across broken glass to vote against Trump, but she’s a Christian who doesn’t think you should force bakers to violate their religious beliefs? Well bigoted, hateful Nazi Charlene can f*ck off.
