How do you know? I’m so fucking sick of this anti-politics rhetoric. I’ve actually been organizing people exactly like this the past few months, and most of them really do want to do something.
I haven’t been organizing in the recent months because I’ve been swamped at work. But I did throughout 2016 to 2024 with a few months off at times. I agree with you these people really want to do something. But their understanding of doing something is buying a product which is what has been sold to them by the morons. My local orgs (PSL, DSA, various too small to mention mutual aid groups) spent a ton of time attempting to educate these people trying to get them to understand that it’s not buying a product at all. Ultimately for every person that stayed as a comrade, 10 had dropped by the time 2021 came around.
I’m not going to stop advocating for political education (and as soon as my personal shit stops being a mire I’m going back to local orgs). I’m also not taking these people at their word because I’ve been around the block before. I wasn’t not a gullible then, and I’m not gullible now. The reality is that these people don’t know what they’re talking about, and you can tell based on how they talk. Frankly this is the shitty part of organizing work, because you’re essentially becoming these people’s priest for a short period of time, until they choose another god. If you have a different experience good on you, but as an in house conversation most political organizers especially socialists often complain about how fickle new people can be.
And it’s actually a detriment to many small orgs in big population centers because you’re swarmed by a bunch of people who are left flirting but effectively libs who are seeking to rid themselves of their moral/political anxiety about the country they live in. This leads to chaos and destroys org discipline in objectives and goals because you have a cacaphony of noobs who have their own quirky unique ideas (which are neither quirky nor unique) and a lot of conviction that nobody has tried them.
In fact Biden’s election basically cratered an entire SALT chapter in my state within 2 years. Also another problem is that every national org needs to keep it’s eyes on the prize, because every time they talk about China there’s a fucking struggle session where the noobs revolt.
: I am now concerned about Guantanamo Bay.
They don’t actually want that tho, they want to go back to brunch.
How do you know? I’m so fucking sick of this anti-politics rhetoric. I’ve actually been organizing people exactly like this the past few months, and most of them really do want to do something.
I haven’t been organizing in the recent months because I’ve been swamped at work. But I did throughout 2016 to 2024 with a few months off at times. I agree with you these people really want to do something. But their understanding of doing something is buying a product which is what has been sold to them by the
morons. My local orgs (PSL, DSA, various too small to mention mutual aid groups) spent a ton of time attempting to educate these people trying to get them to understand that it’s not buying a product at all. Ultimately for every person that stayed as a comrade, 10 had dropped by the time 2021 came around.
I’m not going to stop advocating for political education (and as soon as my personal shit stops being a mire I’m going back to local orgs). I’m also not taking these people at their word because I’ve been around the block before. I wasn’t not a gullible then, and I’m not gullible now. The reality is that these people don’t know what they’re talking about, and you can tell based on how they talk. Frankly this is the shitty part of organizing work, because you’re essentially becoming these people’s priest for a short period of time, until they choose another god. If you have a different experience good on you, but as an in house conversation most political organizers especially socialists often complain about how fickle new people can be.
And it’s actually a detriment to many small orgs in big population centers because you’re swarmed by a bunch of people who are left flirting but effectively libs who are seeking to rid themselves of their moral/political anxiety about the country they live in. This leads to chaos and destroys org discipline in objectives and goals because you have a cacaphony of noobs who have their own quirky unique ideas (which are neither quirky nor unique) and a lot of conviction that nobody has tried them.
In fact Biden’s election basically cratered an entire SALT chapter in my state within 2 years. Also another problem is that every national org needs to keep it’s eyes on the prize, because every time they talk about China there’s a fucking struggle session where the noobs revolt.