Why do so many hard-fought gains appear to be losing ground? It’s because they were successful in fighting entrenched, typically regressive or oligarchic interests. When they’re *winning* they have no need to fight back: the prisoners enforce the rules of the jail. It’s when society appears ready to accept trans people, marriage equality, a return of worker rights—the revanchists fight the hardest. They have already lost the battle of hearts and minds.
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Remember: Mega-corporations wouldn’t be deploying massive union-busting campaigns if they weren’t terrified of worker power.
It's a shitty time to live through for those affected, which is a very large %age of people in America and many other countries. If you fit into one of the broad categories Republicans, the far-right TERFs, even so-called progressives are targeting *OR* anyone you love, respect, or care about is in those categories, it's cold comfort for me to say, “They're fighting so hard because they've lost." We and you and they have to live through this. I have family and friends 100% targeted. Not academic
I'll just reiterate: the people against progress, inclusion—against love, growth, and an improvement in people’s lives and happiness generally—aren’t fighting this hard because they are the winners. But they can be very good at torturing everyone. Losers burn the place down on their way out. That has to be stopped.
Glenn Fleishman
Extinction (our fate)