I have spent a lot of time with history and theory over the years and it has changed me. I no longer just regret learning #MMT... I regret learning history as well. Now I am doomed from both directions, feeling largely desperate and powerless.
Here is the thing with #MMT, you need votes to finance and resource a bill. We have all largely been rope a doped into constantly being pushed to Democrats who refuse to fight back within the party to make anything happen.
Those pushing Democrats refuse to address any nonelectoral solutions. Won't even broach the subjects. If the good democrats don't do anything, bad people say "what do you want, Trump?"
And we end up at less than zero every time. Biden has been a collosal failure. He has created more Trumpers. His take on student debt and marijuana/Cannabis has literally been so feckless it is insane.
So your choices are to literally do absolutely nothing but continue to pray a Democrat shows up and does the right thing or check out and just accept your life going on the shitter.
Of course you can keep pretending the Democratic Party isn't under Wall Street rule...
You can play dumb. Or you can pretend reichwing nihilism is the right thing to embrace as well. But the truth is unless people are ready to really build institutions and do things beyond the electoral process, nothing will change.
All that history. All that MMT will serve you well in Trivial Pursuit of Jeopardy, but it won't get you a Green New Deal.
It's gonna take knowledge and real, non party driven organizing. It's gonna take commitment. But far too many are content playing revolutionary whilst indulging in their avacodo toast and quad venti white mochas to do what must be done.
So
No student debt cancellation
No Medicare for All
No Green New Deal
No pandemic relief checks
Just more pain and suffering
When will we make the choice to agitate and direct action and not give a damn when Eoin Higgins moxls activists and instead focus on forcing change?
No student debt cancellation
No Medicare for All
No Green New Deal
No pandemic relief checks
Just more pain and suffering
When will we make the choice to agitate and direct action and not give a damn when Eoin Higgins moxls activists and instead focus on forcing change?
#MMT is vital to pushing forward but it is stale and useless without coercive direct action.
It's so bad that the saying in 1984 almost feels accurate...
Ignorance is strength.
Ignorance is strength.
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