Ongoing Dem Debacle Thread: Will Smith getting his 15 minutes
-his point has always been that movement left has to occur more slowly than some want.
-He is ok with incremental change.
-It's disingenuous to say he doesnt care about anyone but moderates.
“occur more slowly” These subjective rhetorical vagaries like “movement” and “slowly” are only intended to shitcloud the ideological divide between liberalism and leftism. The seeds of Marxism derived from Kant, Hegel, and even Diogenes. Consider the anti-capitalist slavery abolitionists, Anna Louise Strong, Upton Sinclair, Eugene V Debs, Angela Davis, The Black Panthers. How do you define “slowly” in context to an American political movement that began before the Civil War?
Liberalism, middle class prosperity, and the Cold War has destroyed class solidarity, the labor movement, and socialism in America. There is no logical or honest way to describe leftist progress in this country as slow and incremental.
“Ok with incremental change” Incremental change is inevitable, I bet he supports the sun rise and the tides as well. There are good and bad “incremental” changes that wash each other out. Time =/= progress. Incrementalism is nothing more than setting such a long timeline for goals that no one can hold you accountable for them, it’s simply a rhetorical method to avoid responsibility.
“Disingenuous to say he doesn’t care about anyone but moderates” I strongly disagree. He may well have a progressive ideology, but his analysis of power in American politics only respects moderates and completely dismisses everyone else.