I think one of the ways we (leftists) got ourselves in this dipshit, antisemitic, cult-like political climate is by jerking off so much about being radical.
Let this radicalize you! Let this radicalize you. What radicalized me was. How can they not expect us to be radicalized by this? Let this radicalize you. Let this radicalize you.
As if it’s some fucking virtue! As if there’s inherent value in simply being radical. Being extreme in your response to conditions is not inherently valuable. What is your response to the conditions? That’s where the value lives. It’s not in how far you are away from the status quo its literally just how good, how feasible, how pragmatic, how compassionate your ideas are.
I think what we’re seeing now with the anti-Israel + new antisemitic movement among the left is (among many other things) the culmination of this very exaltation of radicalism. None of these folks had good, feasible, pragmatic, or compassionate ideas. They really were just motivated by wanting something to be VERY DIFFERENT from how things are now. And that’s honestly fucking meaningless. It’s never something we should’ve put stock in.
Don’t let anything radicalize you as its primary value. Don’t ever let your distance from the status quo be your whole ideology. You need to actually have values and principles and morals and things that are close to your heart. You need to HAVE a heart. You can’t just be a political husk filled with anger who gets off on stirring controversy.
We should never have let it get this bad.