The only people the left are capable of holding accountable appear to be other people on the left, or disposable flunkies on the right, so the only thing the left appears to be accomplishing with this approach is self destruction, or clearing out deadwood on the right.
Anyone who says the left is doing anything which requires power should not be taken seriously at all.
The left is people like Richard Wolff, Naomi Klein, Noam Chomsky, Slavoj Žižek, Ralph Nader, Norman Finkelstein, Vandana Shiva, Chris Hedges, Michael Parenti, Cornel West.
The left has almost no organized political power in the US. Except for a few city councils and a couple state houses, it's zero.
When people use "the left" as a catch-all for "not us", some broad brushed painting of "outsiders" this isn't a serious conversation, they're just waving their arms around and making sounds.
lazide|11 months ago
The only people the left are capable of holding accountable appear to be other people on the left, or disposable flunkies on the right, so the only thing the left appears to be accomplishing with this approach is self destruction, or clearing out deadwood on the right.
Mostly just self destruction.
kristopolous|11 months ago
The left is people like Richard Wolff, Naomi Klein, Noam Chomsky, Slavoj Žižek, Ralph Nader, Norman Finkelstein, Vandana Shiva, Chris Hedges, Michael Parenti, Cornel West.
The left has almost no organized political power in the US. Except for a few city councils and a couple state houses, it's zero.
When people use "the left" as a catch-all for "not us", some broad brushed painting of "outsiders" this isn't a serious conversation, they're just waving their arms around and making sounds.
lazide|11 months ago