chapotraphouse

Yeah, you're right. I'm probably being overly pessimistic about the state of most political outlooks in the west. I don't take much of it seriously because I don't see my fellow Americans as having coherent politics outside of consumer identires. It's all random fluff in people's heads given to them by marketing algorithms and rapidly shifting trends and it feels like nothing ever sticks.

I should probably try to take people more seriously. I also don't take conservatives seriously in making cogent demands, or their organizational capacity (outside of the very rich ones). I view their entire ideology as cooked up after the fact, after they already have conditions they want, then most of their demands are about intensifying what already exists for them.