Just when I think I have caught up, I see 2 more pages have been added!
Forgive the long post.
I'm going to out myself here. I consider myself a socialist/syndicalist? Yes, a socialist who doesn't have a problem with the RF, stupid I know.
These two have made me even more so. As someone who identifies
as such, I feel the need to say that the woke left as it is called are
not leftists. The majority of these people are middle, upper middle class, university educated, middle of the road liberals in the political spectrum of things. They may have read some Marx, but are not true scholars of him. The roots lie in the later 60s-70s when there was a growth in civil rights in the States black/women/gay and a wider variety of people having access to higher education. By the 1990s, it started flexing its muscle through political correctness. With the advent of the internet and Twitter
(which people forget was initially created for corporations and businesses to promote their products), every crackpot on the block could shout into the universe their opinions.
Of course, most of the people bitching are young. They want it and they want it now, this instant. They have never lived in a time where they had to wait for anything. We have a generation of socio-politically minded toddlers on speed. They are very quick to call someone a Boomer, just because you may be older than them. They shout homophobe, TERF, sexist, racist at the drop of a hat, but will never acknowledge their ageist views or that someone older might know more than them, because it doesn't fit their strict definition on how a human should act or think. They are trapped in the psychological phenomenon known as groupthink. Someone has decided that this is how to think, they all agree and to deviate from it is to disturb harmony. According to definition, the result is "irrational or dysfunctional decision-making outcomes." It is like the old Maoist struggle session or Soviet self-criticism. These were used to eliminate criticism of the state. An accused will be berated and shamed until they confessed their crime. It sounds like when someone expresses not a hateful, but a differing opinion on Twitter and then they get hounded off the platform. The other side are now about Qanons who believe a story about Hilary Clinton involved in a sex trafficking ring out of a pizza parlour.
Tin hats galore!
Getting back to my beliefs as a socialist, I am not an identitarian. Class struggle is the issue, but I don't see abolishing hierarchy, it is just human nature. True, I will bitch about the wealthy and uber wealthy, because I think and believe that along with environmental issues, the wealth gap is the most distabilizing force that is going on right now. It is obscene to me how there are people making money off the backs of people doing the real work, while they reap the rewards and the worker should be grateful for the crumbs they receive. So why side with the oh so oppressive RF? For the simple fact that they do not forget the concept of
noblesse oblige. It maybe a gilded cage, but they still realize how fortunate they are and the Queen is the ultimate example of that. This is something that Meghan didn't care to understand and that Harry has obviously forgotten.
