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Liberals will lay down for fascism no matter what. Time and time again history has proved this.
Hah. Yout think this is about “liberals”? I encourage you to read the article in full. It’s got a very good point, and it’s not just about “liberals”.
It’s a lesson the Extremely Online Left still hasn’t fully learned, failing where its political enemies succeed. Reactionary right-wing groups like the homophobic and transphobic Moms for Liberty—which seeks to ban books from LGBTQ and BIPOC authors under the guise of “parental rights”—have claimed political victories by seizing power one public school board and small town at a time. Other reactionaries have similarly managed to take their pet grievances about diversity and wokeness to the national level by moving from online outrage to on-the-ground community organizing.
I actively try to decouple from the US left-of-center discourse these days (another point made in the piece), but even I have stumbled upon plenty of alleged hardcore leftists posting dejectedly at the void, deflecting their inaction by yelling at me that “I don’t know what it’s like”, the way an angsty teenager would and EXTREMELY not doing anything tangible. You’re doing it right now.
The difference is I actually do actively organize within my community. But I’m not an American. And I’m guessing by “the extremely online left” he’s using the American version of left, which is Democrat base. Which are liberals. Leftists organize a lot more than liberals seem to.
In the US? I don’t think so. The American left ranges from “residual” to “existing only online”. By most counts they loathe the Democrats as much or more than the actual fascists. Although I would also certainly include the entitled left-of-centre US progressive liberals that spent the entire campaign complaining that Democrats weren’t “exciting them” enough or that they didn’t have a magic wand to solve this or that issue they cared about personally.
Neither group comes even close to having the zealous willingness to organize and take action the US right has. From harassing political oponents up and down the education system to disingenuous protests about their figureheads being shunned to an outright coup attempt. As the article says, the US right is both way more likely to show up to be publicly annoying and to receive both implicit and explicit endorsement from national political figures when doing so.
