There needs to be acceptance and a place for the straight white guys on the left. A lot of us didn't do a thing wrong and are getting screwed by the people with money pretty bad. A lot of people said we can be allies and that's true but I'm not happy being told I'm the problem. It kinda sucks. I'm not trying to hurt anyone. I learned GLBT people are fine and so are other minorities. I wasn't raised to think that but I learned.
Ally in intolerant political movements means "one who agrees with all our opinions, loyal to us but will never will be one of us and will always be treated with suspicion."
Ah yes the "no you're intolerant" canard.
Other than this I feel RPL has a point... there are certain pundits on the left who blanket blame people and I don't support that obviously.
It's not a matter of intolerance, it's understanding that when people say "We don't like you or trust you but do as we say," and they mean it, they're never going to care about your own interests. Most of the people who talk about things in this framework make a lot of noise about intersectionality, but when it comes down to action they pretty much invariably only work towards improving things for themselves. There's nothing wrong with that, it's human, but don't expect anyone else to spend all of their time and energy helping someone else make things better for their own group. Granted there
are plenty of actual misandrists, racists, and other bigots scattered around, but mostly it's just plain self-interest dressed up to sound appealing to milquetoast self-hating white liberals.
It's precisely why I only advocate on the basis of economic class -- something which benefits my economic class benefits >95% of humanity, it's the closest to a holistic approach that we have. That was the first type of collective action that the American rich targeted in the late 1700s and early 1800s when they broke up the early coalition rebellions where slaves, indentures, and poor freemen worked together for change without much regard for racial differences.
ratchet effect
Is this what you mean? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ratchet_effect I'm not sure I understand you.
Reactionaries move right, Dems slow that movement without going left.
More specifically, the Reps serve to move further right, the Dems serve to stop it but never go back to the status quo ante... politica, I guess, while simultaneously acting to prevent anyone else from doing that by making it so that if you tried, you'd instead split the vote and just get the Reps in again.
Bingo. This is the core of the issue with FPTP SMD elections, it's categorically impossible to effectively rebel against party bosses once the system has a few decades to get established.
Americans - "Biden is too senile, let's vote for the old man who masturbates his microphone while rambling about people eating cats"
It literally doesn't matter, the cultists are too deluded for rational thought to matter. Remember, the same people who had strokes because they thought that the Ohio state flag was an "Obama flag" are flying Trump flags all over the place.
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