Rancid wrote:It's a valid concern. We used to ignore fringe right-conspiracy nuts. Now we have to take them seriously because Trump. What we are seeing in this video is the other side of that same looney coin.
Earlier I basically said, it's ok to ignore these people, because they won't attain any sort of influence. However, I could be dead wrong, since many people said the same of MAGA types some 5-6 years ago. We were dead wrong about that.
Yeah, I'm with you.
I can't stand the woke bullshit, to again, be frank about it.
The stage performers seemed fairly normal. The main host, I could feel a sense of sympathy for her, although she was also participating.
It was of course an edited clip, but some stupid shit on display there.
Honestly, they are demeaning the term 'socialist'.
Imagine if Marx was there (they had their 'international' conventions), he'd probably tell them all to shut the fuck up and quit bitching, as there are important matters to be discussed.
This bullshit is polluting the society, as much as the rightwing bullshit. (Rightwing, for lack of a better term.)
It isn't a dualistic thing. There isn't really 'right' and 'left', the loonies have their camps, and this is a loony camp.
Many things do have dualism, but politics isn't really so much one of them, it is more diverse than that, but of course in America we are trained to think of politics as a team sport, between two opposing sides.
Politics is more like ice cream. It isn't like chocolate ice cream and vanilla ice cream are the only flavors, and it would be erroneous to consider chocolate ice cream and vanilla ice cream as opposing sides of the same coin.
But, we are certainly trained to consider politics in that way.