I just don’t see a route for people to organize working class folks under a banner when all the banners have already been tarnished for 60-70% of the people
I don’t see the problem of banners being tarnished nearly so much as the Right Wing Wurlitzer media blinding and defeaning its audience at a scale no small community outreach organization can compete with. It’s less that anyone has an entrenched view of <insert ideology> as dirty and more that - at any moment - a talk radio host can unload a shotgun full of sloppy diarrhea in any direction.
we the working class are being robbed endlessly by the elite ruling class and it has to change
At some point, people do need to understand that they control the means of production in a very literal sense. Their hands are on the rudder and it is their collective effort that moves the ship. But building that class consciousness is hard. At some level, you aren’t trying to build a giant ideological social movement. What you’re trying to build is a network of people around you who like and trust one another.
That’s significantly more impervious to shotgun blasts of feces from a national media organ, because its no longer a contest between Army of Loud Mouths and Guy You’ve Never Heard Of.
Id worry if you expand it beyond that you lose a lot of support.
I think you have a large deficit of trust, generally speaking. There is no Perfect Messaging Strategy you can use to shape discourse. There is only the sheer volume of discourse blasted out over a wide audience. YouTube filling up with random right-wing hacks doesn’t happen because the hacks are incredibly good at their job. It entirely because the billionaire donor class is willing to spend enormous amounts of money to spew this message everywhere.
You, personally, can’t do anything about that. But you can build up a local group of friends and neighbors who like one another. Having a community around you who like and trust one another is the best defense against this kind of aimless hate. Sticking up for one another at every opportunity builds trust and confidence. Finding new opportunities to make new friends and expand your circle is all you can really do.
I don’t see the problem of banners being tarnished nearly so much as the Right Wing…
I did not mean actually tarnished, I mean figuratively tarnished in the minds of a large group of people that are required to affect change.
At some point, people do need to understand that they control the means of production in a very literal sense.
Agreed, but I dont think you can begin to teach that lesson until the working class has solidified more, or you risk breaking momentum when one of them goes “Boy i swear i heard this from the radio man i let control my opinions as something i dont like”
I think you have a large deficit of trust
100% true. I’ve seen a majority of the country get swayed by the literal lowest common denominator of conman ive ever seen. I know the reason for this is because of the influence of the media and their own personal bubbles, but it does prove that they are incapable of forming their own opinions.
You, personally, can’t do anything about that
Yeah i know, so i just try to speak about the path forward that makes sense to me and hope it resonates with people.
I don’t see the problem of banners being tarnished nearly so much as the Right Wing Wurlitzer media blinding and defeaning its audience at a scale no small community outreach organization can compete with. It’s less that anyone has an entrenched view of <insert ideology> as dirty and more that - at any moment - a talk radio host can unload a shotgun full of sloppy diarrhea in any direction.
At some point, people do need to understand that they control the means of production in a very literal sense. Their hands are on the rudder and it is their collective effort that moves the ship. But building that class consciousness is hard. At some level, you aren’t trying to build a giant ideological social movement. What you’re trying to build is a network of people around you who like and trust one another.
That’s significantly more impervious to shotgun blasts of feces from a national media organ, because its no longer a contest between Army of Loud Mouths and Guy You’ve Never Heard Of.
I think you have a large deficit of trust, generally speaking. There is no Perfect Messaging Strategy you can use to shape discourse. There is only the sheer volume of discourse blasted out over a wide audience. YouTube filling up with random right-wing hacks doesn’t happen because the hacks are incredibly good at their job. It entirely because the billionaire donor class is willing to spend enormous amounts of money to spew this message everywhere.
You, personally, can’t do anything about that. But you can build up a local group of friends and neighbors who like one another. Having a community around you who like and trust one another is the best defense against this kind of aimless hate. Sticking up for one another at every opportunity builds trust and confidence. Finding new opportunities to make new friends and expand your circle is all you can really do.
I did not mean actually tarnished, I mean figuratively tarnished in the minds of a large group of people that are required to affect change.
Agreed, but I dont think you can begin to teach that lesson until the working class has solidified more, or you risk breaking momentum when one of them goes “Boy i swear i heard this from the radio man i let control my opinions as something i dont like”
100% true. I’ve seen a majority of the country get swayed by the literal lowest common denominator of conman ive ever seen. I know the reason for this is because of the influence of the media and their own personal bubbles, but it does prove that they are incapable of forming their own opinions.
Yeah i know, so i just try to speak about the path forward that makes sense to me and hope it resonates with people.