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kleinbl00  ·  1567 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: And Now we Know his Name

I don't think it's fair to criticize the Left for fatalism when the best they've been able to do is attempt to preserve the globalist dystopia created by 40 years of neoliberalism. I also think it's fatuously obtuse to observe that the right has a "solution" when they're literally deporting US citizens, throwing kids in cages and withdrawing from every international cooperative and regulatory agreement of the past 40 years.

Creation and hope is where the Left ought to be but you're talking about a group whose political party has failed to secure (1) the Equal Rights Amendment (2) The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (3) any reasonable minimum wage reform (4) any comprehensive healthcare reform (5) electoral protections for citizens (6) minority protections (7) indigenous protections (8) environmental protections or (9) any other "liberal" reform other than gay marriage for as long or longer than any of them have been alive.

The Left lost the South to racism in 1966. For anyone under 30, that was two generations ago. Where, exactly, is this hope supposed to come from?