Socialists in the Imperial Core aren’t going to be able to deprogram 90% of the white settler establishment.
I feel this too. I’ve had those “dinner table conversations” with my fox-news watching family countless times, and after painstaking hours I can get them to agree that mayyyybe immigrants aren’t the problem, and the rich are at fault. Next time I visit home, all that’s erased: they’re back to hating immigrants again. The propaganda machinery plays a big role, but IMO the social bribery plays the biggest factor. White workers don’t need to ally with immigrants or imperialized peoples, because their bourgeiosie has already guaranteed them a stable lifestyle, and has always been their ally. Politics just becomes a “choose-your-own-adventure” story, or a team sport, not anything that affects you materially.
Agreed. I certainly don’t think my white supremacist, “right to work but still in a union” father is going to change after 60 years of being submerged in the bullshit.
I feel this too. I’ve had those “dinner table conversations” with my fox-news watching family countless times, and after painstaking hours I can get them to agree that mayyyybe immigrants aren’t the problem, and the rich are at fault. Next time I visit home, all that’s erased: they’re back to hating immigrants again. The propaganda machinery plays a big role, but IMO the social bribery plays the biggest factor. White workers don’t need to ally with immigrants or imperialized peoples, because their bourgeiosie has already guaranteed them a stable lifestyle, and has always been their ally. Politics just becomes a “choose-your-own-adventure” story, or a team sport, not anything that affects you materially.
Agreed. I certainly don’t think my white supremacist, “right to work but still in a union” father is going to change after 60 years of being submerged in the bullshit.