"Why is the right so much more effective at organizing?"
Because they're funded by billionaires who literally dump money onto any project that might have a chance of increasing their power.
Also, "mainstream" politics is dominated by their sycophants.
@gwynnion They paid the guards to let them steal the square where all the talking gets done, so now all talk is done with their tacit approval (and effective veto.)
It's easy to organize when you control what is true.
The loyal opposition is paid to fail.
The people who at and in opposition need to absorb that publicβs affairs is propelled by confrontation with moral sentiments. Facts are marginal. Consequences huge.
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I don't see it as often now but liberals kept whining, why can't we take over the party like the Tea Party did?
Because (wacky tales of George Soros or whatever aside) the oligarchs ain't gonna make that part of their PLAN FOR HOLDING POWER, that's why.
How is it not blazingly obvious?
This is actually quite heartening to be reminded of.
They win, not because they are right or popular, but because they bought the game.
A game whose original rules were written by genocidal colonizers who print their own money and write their own Get Out Of Jail Free cards.
Some attempts at democracy got sprinkled on top, but that's what this whole rig is based on under the hood.
@violetmadder @jrdepriest @gwynnion The American project was essentially a group of (wealthy) men breaking with the colonizing government of England so as to become* a colonizing power of their own.
* also continuing colonizing atrocities already in progress.
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Edit: "group of (wealthy) White men".
Also, for the sake of the discussion, I have been told by other POC that well intended white people on the left tend to just not listen to what POC say they need from any ally.
Remember the tea meme on consent? Pretty much the same thing, but with help.
#POC #allyship #consent #CoordinatedAction #listening #solidarity #BigCoalition #WhitePeople
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