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Advice to US - Expand coalition, ditch DNC, don’t stop, get off twitter, use blockchain, grassroots movement focused on education, answer questions rather than repeating slogans. Protect unions.

Part of the problem is the US Constitution. We don't have a mechanism to allow representation of more than two points of view.

"It's not my job to educate you" was always the worst fucking trend out there.

Apparently people need to be educated on what the supremacy clause is, and why it means their state vote to protect abortion was negated by their federal vote for trump...

Lesson one, it's a branding exercise. Anytime you start with "leftist movement" you're done. It's not the third rail of American politics. It's the overhead transmission lines from Hoover Dam and you're standing there with a oxy-acetylene gas ax cutting down the tower on yourself.

I definitely agree, but also education is a mutual interaction. In the same way that educators must first recognize every student as an equal, the students must also be humble & recognize their need to be educated.

What does "radical political education" look like in your view?

They don’t want to hear it. They’ll eat shit with a smile on their face as long as they can still live behind their white picket fences.

They never had a political education in the first place, as most Americans don’t.

Amen, and amen.

As a brazilian leftist I want to add that this only works if american leftist also take all of their efforts into removing every cell of imperialistc culture from their bodies and completely rebuild what being american means

Ive always felt “its not my job to educate you” is like, kinda shitty to say.

Big agree to all of this! I get that it's unfair that people who are already suffering need to work harder to also educate people who don't have it as bad. But it is the work that needs doing, and if we don't do it, who will?

I'm not aganist prostituton and in Spain the "Left-wing" is against the legalisation of prostitution.

Problem is not everyone has the capacity to educate. Those that do, I admire IMMENSELY. Because I can barely hold myself together let alone try to break through to the people who hate me.

Start with really bad states. TEXAS, ALABAMA, ARKANSAS. I know in Alabama, teachers take the tests for the kids, they're not allowed to talk about slavery, and the Trail of Tears was because of the Tears of happiness for being given new homes. It's horrific what they "teach."

I proposed sneaking banned books into libraries with instructions not to check them out and return when done. Lol

diffusion. They stay put until the next election. They fit in with the local community as much as they can, but maybe they buy a newspaper. Join the board of education there. Write an opinion piece. Work towards that four-year goal. We need people to be strategic!

In The Jungle by Upton Sinclair, the main character at his lowest point wanders into a free socialist lecture just to have a chair to sleep in, and what he hears is what finally helps him pull out of the spiral. Leftists used to understand this is how you get people on your side.

i fully agree. lack of education is what got us into this mess in the first place

I watched the clip, and I agree fully. When I say “radical political education” I mean the exact counter-mis/disinformation/propaganda that he’s talking about. That political education also includes the establishment of a political home, and trust building that counters individualism.

The left has taken a massive step back and education is a massive campaign that will take many many years. You're not wrong but it's a steep very long road.

I’m pretty sure that’s what always gets us in trouble. People don’t like to feel talked down to and I se A TON of people on our side calling them idiots all day every day. There has to be a way to communicate and find common ground without calling everyone stupid.

“All the capital class had to do to get you to do their bidding was raise prices.”

i think lack of education is a big reason why the election ended the way it did actually

Anyone who thinks that political literacy should be a matter of personal responsibility isn’t a leftist. They’re a right-winger with different views of who the elites should be.

If they don't like it, perhaps do a peter Griffin and create their own country

Spot on

They’re dismantling the education system because they know that knowledge is power.

In case you're wondering where to start, I wrote this a few months ago. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Theory is important but you get the most out of it by reading the historical context

So what you need is the modern equivalent to Thomas Paine's Common Sense, a pamphlet distributed in the lead-up to the American Revolution. Education isn't all that important, persuasion is. The Right never educates, they hate education, they put all their points into persuasion.

You chose not to be clear as if this is just a hook for a deeper thread Some people prefer to communicate that way. Nothing wrong with that. We're all different

White democrats/liberals need to start being more transparent about this and probably much more besides How else can we educate each other? In Deconstructing Karen 2022 www.imdb.com/title/tt1988.... Republican whyte women are more open to challenging their privilege than liberal whyte women

Why Would AnyOne Think Education Is'nt A Key To A Nation's Survival? Oh Yeah, Because They're Uneducated. Duh.

Educate them how? I used to put in the effort, I used to do the research, refute their beliefs, challenge them to rebut, etc. It never did anything.

One of the other really clear opportunities is just getting white voters to go to college. The white voters are the ones who messed this up for everyone, and it’s really stark how their vote moved more and more to the right as highest level of education completed moved down.

For so long it felt like we leftists didn't understand the ways in which our ideologies were in the minority. When you're in the minority, you have to grow your base! You have to educate!

1000% - education is fundamental

NOBODY IS GOING TO LISTEN TO A FUCKING PODCAST WHEN THEY'RE SCARED AND STARVING YOU GODDAMN IMBECILE

We really need a modern Communist Manifesto.

I can't teach someone who isn't willing to learn. But I can point them and others in the right direction.

That's an improvement, but it is also helpful if you can distill the information and communicate it to people directly and then point them to reading for more

Also serious electoral reform

Real education too - “it’s not my job to educate you,” (in my experience) has always been the tell that the person speaking is basing their worldview on precisely 3 Chomsky essays and little else.

But true! If someone IS informed enough to educate, they should! It would definitely help.

I never understood that phrase. It's EVERYONE'S job to educate.

📌 I feel like I may be linking to this post a lot.

We tried that, they don't want to be educated. They don't care, they never will.