this post was submitted on 28 Jun 2024
637 points (93.9% liked)
Political Memes
5289 readers
3432 users here now
Welcome to politcal memes!
These are our rules:
Be civil
Jokes are okay, but don’t intentionally harass or disturb any member of our community. Sexism, racism and bigotry are not allowed. Good faith argumentation only. No posts discouraging people to vote or shaming people for voting.
No misinformation
Don’t post any intentional misinformation. When asked by mods, provide sources for any claims you make.
Posts should be memes
Random pictures do not qualify as memes. Relevance to politics is required.
No bots, spam or self-promotion
Follow instance rules, ask for your bot to be allowed on this community.
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
One fucking HUNDRED percent! Well said.
The progressive flank in this country could have anything it wants, but what it needs most today is a plan. Too many of us have fallen victim to the rapturous thinking that one day something will snap, be the straw that broke the camel's back be the point of no return for the depravity of the right, and revolution will come to even the deepest red rural corners of this land made for you and me.
It's the same as the western misconception of Karma. Karma isn't "what goes around comes around" it's a caution that behaving selfishly destroys the world around you and causes others to do the same in ways that will ultimately negatively impact you too. Karma isn't the assurance that one day they'll get theirs, it's the fact that justice will not come unless you break the cycle and project justice into your world.
We need organization, actual, coordinated accountable, organization. We need national cooperation, and we need effort down to the individual.
Most importantly, we need our own manifesto. The Republicans have Project 2025, they have a plan, this plan can be put to action at any time provided they get the white house, they have something they get to take to the public and sell as what they plan to do.
We need A Project for All. A coalescence of every idea we single issue over, and quite a few that we haven't even thought of yet as a political community into a coordinated policy package that we can sell as what exactly we plan to do.
We need to give a solid plan of what Joe Detroit can expect of the transition period from the current medical system to M4A. We need to be able to tell Margaret from Georgia exactly how she benefits from cracking the supreme court into a sortitionate office that randomly selects its jurors from the pool of all federal judges, and we gotta let Pennsylvania hear how they stand to gain from a world where lawyer and legal fees are not passed to the litigants and instead covered by the state.
It's just religious thinking from people who were driven away from the church. They still think the same way. They're just on a different side now. They don't care about plans or processes or how to achieve their goals. They only care about martyrdom and salvation from the heavens.
That too but I try not to be too direct on that point since they also claim to be atheists and really shut down if you point out they're still doing religion just now it's the church of the revolution
Dude… I wish I could award gold to you because I would. This was VERY well said.
Seriously… Thanks for writing it out.
I think genuinely that there is a generation of leaders who are being missed because there isn't a point of entry for them to make themselves known to the people that can build them up.