None of those are deal breakers for those people

(5) Stop considering that at some point a Huey P Newton will take up the torch and say the same things you're saying, and start getting your collective neighborhood, school, and workforce to say it. Without attaching names, without "taking credit." That's what it means to be anti-individualist.

(4) So what does that look like? The conclusion writes itself: push against the cult of individualism whenever you can - as you advocate for others and as you empathize with your fellow workers (which you should already be doing) you need to be thinking in terms of the people.

(3) And that's harder. But at no point in any of our mainstream politics do we have a faction that sits back and points to the true popular sentiment. The best argument against our way of thinking is when the loudest voices develop personality cults, and the collective units get drowned out by them.

(2) The natural response to demagoguery (e.g. Joe Rogan) seems to be that the left needs "e-celebs" to be Thought Leaders who will bring in easy fanbases to spread the theory. But all that looks like, to the rest of the world, is hypocrisy. We must fight without celebrity, without personality cults.

In any sane culture a person who identifies primarily by their individualism would be considered an abberation, and dangerous for the cooperative society. They would be laughed at for their ignorance in believing in fairy tales like "I didn't have any help"

But alas, we aren't in a same culture.

"Intelligence" is not even well-defined, and IQ and "Intelligence" are key phrases used to justify taking away the rights of the disabled..

If you attack Republicans on the basis of mental acuity you will not build a world capable of removing Republicans.

www.snopes.com/fact-check/d...

Never forget that Hitler was a stupid demagogue, his government was a clownshow, and he was obsessed with newspaper opinions of himself. Yet discussions of how Nazi Germany came to be lead to the economic and geopolitical conditions that lead to it. Why not here, too?

America needs anticapitalism.

We have an idiot in charge because the system has become so corrupt that *only* an idiot can take charge. That includes Biden, who was a dumb box of neoliberal fucking rocks and a puppet to the Military Industrial Complex. Biden held the door for Trump.

www.opendemocracy.net/en/donald-tr...

I, personally, do not want a *fascist* in charge. A fascist is a bourgeois demagogue who raised up a cult following in a nation that has fully succumbed to the corruption of capitalism. *Trump* is not the problem, he is the symptom of the system. If it weren't him it'd be another like him.

There are no proven claims about Trump's IQ, and delving down that rabbit hole lacks class consciousness. You need to be attacking Trump and his cronies on ideological grounds. When you start to talk about IQ you start to justify means testing and eugenics arguments, whether you intend to or not.

IQ is problematic and should not be used as a measure of anyone's worth.

Maybe his "filibuster" would have actually helped us get our democracy back if he waited to do it until there was SOMETHING TO BLOCK WITH IT.

Dems immediately confirmed Trump's cabinet picks after he finished.

So... what did we get out of it exactly?

If the left were doing purity tests there would be exactly zero viable Democrats worth supporting since they are all pro capitalist. Including AOC and Bernie.

Standing against genocide is an extremely low bar and NOT a purity test.