I saw this reddit thread here: https://greatawakening.win/p/17rmA8JJuq/fun-stuff--watch-the-left-desper/c/ and decided to do something I haven't done in nearly a decade - formulate a reply to lefties that refuse to learn.
Why leftists think they are losing
The post hoc rationalisation and self deceptions going on in that thread is hilarious.
- It's the algos that are against us! - yeah. Cool story Bernie bros. Because FB and Google are so notoriously anti woke /sarc. Seriously, the algos are biased to your favour and have been for years. Over a decade at least.
- The right has all the power! - only if you define anything that is corporate or wealthy as right wing, which these days is far from reality.
- it's because socialism is really just misunderstood anti-monarchism! - ummm no. We tried your way for about 100 years in loads of countries. It ends with loads of dead people and total societal and economic collapse. Socialism is fundamentally anti capitalism, not just anti monarchy.
- people are just afraid of change! - no, people don't want a change that fundamentally is flawed and doomed to lead to literal hell. Good intentions make for a wonderful brimstone pavement. People are happy to take a change that adds value to their lives and the lives of those they care about, but not a change that adds only costs.
- we're underdogs and always will be! - you literally are controlling the establishment, the media, and corporate pressure throughout the west since the last US election. Dude, wake the hell up and pull your head out. You haven't been underdogs since probably at least the 90s to be frank.
- we are just disorganised! - this obviously is so tone deaf a response that it nearly gets filed under "I can't even" for me, but given the left has more ngos working to lobby and organise "grass roots" movements globally this is just a pretty lie for these losers.
- it's because capitalism! - what, you mean you need ideas that can compete? If that is what you meant than correct, but it's not. You meant the same thing as "the right has all the power" in that you presume all rich people are right wing, a fundamental categorisation failure. It ignores wealthy people like David Brock, rob reiner, every left wing politician on the take and benefiting from trading scams, and people like Soros.
- people lack critical thinking on why wokeism is correct! - no, this is projection. You are confusing critical thinking with critical theory, and fail to apply the former with consistency.
why the left is actually losing
To lefties everywhere, here is why you are losing. It is because you are on a foundation of sand, ideologically. You presumed there can be no real objective truth. You presume everything factual is relative, including biological facts on genetics. You have fundamentally flawed philosophical principles and always have, because your theories are based on feelings and not logic and empiricism. You forget that there is what you see and what is actually there, and if your lens of observation is flawed, the view of what is there will be flawed as well.
How lefties could change for the better (but we know they probably won't)
- Learn the trivium, and focus on logic.
- Read something on economic theory that isn't marxist or keynesian. I recommend F. A. Hayek and the road to serfdom, or perhaps watch some videos featuring Thomas Sowell.
- Learn the principles of biology as a physical science instead of a social one.
- Learn to understand that because we are individuals we cannot be all the same or just grouped into buckets, so the only system that can work is one which takes into account our individualism, namely capitalism.
- Learn that if you focus on privileges for minority groups over the negative rights of all, people will consider your opinion on what should be done as worthless.
- Perhaps most of all, learn some humility. Learn that maybe you could be fundamentally wrong and learn to accept failure. If you can't do that much, you won't grow.
Capitalism relies on banking. So does Communism.
Total central control over who is allowed to get money, when, and how much. You can't withdraw over certain thresholds without going through a massive hassle, and you certainly cannot just withdraw tens of thousands of dollars without raising institutional alarms. You can't even travel in and out of the country with more than $10K in cash without getting arrested and hassled. Is this true Capitalism that is working as intended? Yes.
You have to acquire Capital in order to build. This can be a very good thing- as it allows you to borrow from the future in order to fund the present. But when borrowing happens indefinitely and the money is not based on anything, the value of anything in the present is functionally zero. There is nothing that cannot just be bought on the spot by anyone connected enough to be approved for massive new money creation.
Of all the things that are a "social construct", money, particularly paper money, is the most virulent. It is the spiritual descendant of Jacob stealing Esau's birthright in exchange for a bowl of soup. We trade our entire lives for paper that cost nothing for its creators to make. Capitalism is not the philosophical opposite of Communism, it is its twin. Total Central Control over what and how things are allowed to be produced.
There is a quote attributed to Lenin that states "The establishment of a central bank is 90% of communizing a nation."
It is accurate in spirit: here is a paraphrasing of this full passage translated from his 1917 pamphlet "Will the Bolsheviks Retain State Power?":
"Capitalism has created an accounting apparatus in the shape of the banks, syndicates, postal service, consumers' societies, and office employees' unions. Without big banks socialism would be impossible. The big banks are the "state apparatus" which we need to bring about socialism, and which we take ready-made from capitalism; our task here is merely to lop off what capitalistically mutilates this excellent apparatus, to make it even bigger, even more democratic, even more comprehensive. Quantity will be transformed into quality. A single State Bank, the biggest of the big, with branches in every rural district, in every factory, will constitute as much as nine-tenths of the socialist apparatus. This will be country wide book-keeping, country-wide accounting of the production and distribution of goods, this will be, so to speak, some thing in the nature of the skeleton of socialist society. We can "lay hold of" and "set in motion" this "state apparatus" (which is not fully a state apparatus under capitalism, but which will be so with us, under socialism) at one stroke, by a single decree, because the actual work of book-keeping, control, registering, accounting and counting is performed by employees, the majority of whom themselves lead a proletarian or semi-proletarian existence."
We need a free market.
The strict adherence to Capitalism is guided opposition (controlled from the top, but Communism is such a dumbass idea that opposing it is obviously logical) and shares nearly everything in common with Socialism and Communism. Capitalism is exactly the rotten fruit that the Communists claim it is. They are correct that the system is controlled by a handful of corrupt corporations, that the 1% (probably closer to the 0.01%) run the world, and that the system intentionally tramples on the working people and exploits them. But they never talk about the Central Banks' roles in creating and using the corrupt money systems.
We need a free market - indeed