Revolution is a funny thing: most hate planning, hate building and always forget there are counter revolutionary elements always laying in wait for complacency. Revolutions are not events, they have an arc and a timeline. They must be sustained
Know anyone given to complacency?
Take a look at what happened with the Great Financial Crisis and how folks got bored in chasing down these actors that should be in jail or at least flogged in the town square.
People just got bored and chased other shiny objects.
Look at the Covid bail outs and the pittance we the people received.
Bored. Yawn... Folks want to be entertained.
It requires a lot more than how you feel. It requires focus, commitment and yes... Sacrifice.
The material conditions are rarely considered. Consider Mugabe and Zimbabwe.
When he took the farm land away, he had no plan for agricultural sovereignty.
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The unfortunate thing is people on our own team listen to uneducated voices about economic solutions & perspectives and in desperation, they ignore the most important things. I mean absolutely VITAL things that are gonna really have far reaching & extremely negative consequences.
Never underestimate the power of an uneducated herd, galloping in precisely the wrong direction based on the absolute right sensibilities however with absolutely destructive consequences.
The #UBI or Universal Basic Income is a false promise.
I have long been a proponent of a Universal Basic Needs approach because the government can absorb any price shocks or costs that may be associated with a lack of production or dealing with gouging and hording.
All your heroes were content chasing tax $$ in a fiat regime & they couldn't sac up to change shit.
Now #MMT has gotten in front of incrementalists & begun doing what you couldn't & wouldn't do for the last BAZILLION years. Some of the victories are different than what you think
It's ok to HATE #BlueAnon & despise sell outs & point out when Progressives fail to do the minimum resistance & watch Joe Manchin do solo what the squad would not do for Medicare for All or wars or lies like Russia Gate & all the other horseshit the horrific establishment pushes
It's ok to point out how shitty the party is and how they leverage rotating villains to kill legislation
Neoliberals represent an existential threat to even their most ardent defenders for the following 3 key reasons:
1. Neoliberals represent the status quo during times when drastic action is required. They tell everyone everything is impossible and then ensure it is impossible by instituting austerity measures of deficit reduction and tax hikes.
2. Neoliberals allow lesser intellects and wealthy people to feel they have done their Civic duty example preventing Trump and then go back to sleep...
What I hope people get from this Biden stimulus bill: we could have solved the problems and we chose to celebrate bandaids, even with a Democratic super majority. We still allowed @JoeManchinWV to hurt millions of people. We allowed a lot of people to be left in the cold.
Remember we Backstopped Wall Street and other FIRE sector corporations with TRILLIONS of zero interest loans and took bad debt off their balance sheets without flinching but we had to reduce unemployment benefits by $100 to appease... Democrats?
The absolutely ONLY thing I can think of to celebrate about the stimulus is it serves to shatter the Deficit Myth and yet it was too tiny and now the counter strike will attack this pittance.
Don't let the bad guys talk about inflation. We are nowhere near full employment, so any talk of inflation should be met with guillotines
Bbbbut inflation= guillotines
Bbbut confidence in the dollar = guillotines
Bbbbut personal responsibility = guillotines