This isn’t aimed specifically at you. I’m very likely guilty of this myself.
What you’ve said here highlights what I feel is the fundamental issue of unity for those on the left: We are all so damned certain we’re the smartest in the room, to some extent anyway. We can box up and ship our opinions largely through the use of actual vocabulary. We can do real research. Many more of us have degrees, or are otherwise interested in some more academic form of hobbies, careers, and lend our strengths towards artistic approaches. Now this isn’t universal and there are gigantic nodes of people who stand outside this generalization and yet still consider themselves not Republican, if not clearly left-leaning. There is at least a grain of truth for the majority.
It isn’t that we bicker. We are so divided that each of the groups we belong to must, in their own way, be correct, or be offended. Just look at Biden: The majority on the Left call for equality and justice for individuals with barriers/disabilities. We yap on and on about their strengths and capacity to be incredible in so many ways. Then the instant Biden verbally fucks up we wholly ignore all the immense good he has done in favor of “Old man can’t word properly!” and immediately draw lines.
What the fuck.
Yeah, that’s a radical example and somewhat incorrectly used in the context of this discussion, and yet it does highlight why we get so fucked over so often. I’ve backed up and seen the whole forest for what it is and would really appreciate it if everyone else stopped attempting to cram their oversized heads into the nearest tree, all the while yelling about how their tree is somehow both wholly different and also the best tree. We’re all in a fucking forest and Hexxus is torching the place. The problem is even those of us choosing the forest FOR the trees are at risk of being burned. All because the intelligent fools can’t hear us yelling while their heads are shoved up an Ent’s ass, blind in their false wisdom.
Gah, so angry.
