Maybe before you lay down political critiques you should consider what you are trying to accomplish, and whether your critique is actually making progress towards those goals. Just a thought.
“You can't escape ideology!” “United States politics is in no small part just a game of tribalistic chess among elites!” Etc.
Yes. These things are true. As a matter of fact, they have been noted and analyzed by scholars and political scientists ad nauseum for the greater part of the last century. And yet time and time again I see people raising these points as though they are somehow earthshattering news.
What are you trying to accomplish by raising these points? Are you proposing a way out? Are you, to use the technologist's term, “submitting a patch”? Understanding the field of politics is important, but it is important insofar as you are using it to *accomplish a goal.*
Or is what you're doing criticizing politics *in general,* criticizing political action *in general,* such that the only “reasonable” position would be to remain distant and aloof?
People will go after Democrats for being elitist or only thinking of their own and when you look both historically and recent events (North Carolina is a particularly notable example) this criticism is strong and it is valid. But it is only strong and valid insofar as it is pushing the party, or the field of politics in whole, towards a different direction, and not towards annihilation either.
NOT TO MENTION THE FACT that these critiques erase the long history of people working within, against, and through the Democratic party to achieve lasting change, in the Labor movement, in the Civil Rights movement, in the Women's Rights movement, in the LGBT movement. The party is not just the elites and it never has been, and to write off those contributions as somehow wholly external is folly.
@u2764 do some reading on socialism, communism and anarchism. we are criticising the failures of the existing political system to enact any meaningful justice for marginalised groups. we are demanding a whole new system - a revolution.
@u2764 false. we care for one an other, we support the members of our community locally and globally. we will end capitalism.
@fxck Demanding to whom? Who is going to answer your demand? Why would they? What incentive do they have? You can criticize the system all you want but on some level you have to play if you want to get something done.