We will be sure to insist during self-criticism that there are no strategic changes to be made and that insert excuse was the reason things failed (again).
This mindset isn't something that happened just with covid. We've heavily downplayed and ignored illness (in the US atleast) for as long as I can remember.
We all remember the kid in school who was never allowed to stay home, no matter how sick they were. My best friend got sent to school with mono when we were in Jr. High.
I never got my flu shots as a kid, and I remember a few different times our teachers asked us if we'd gotten our flu shots and typically only about ~15% said they got one. (this would have been 10-15 years ago though in the rural midwest)
What you want from people are actual lifestyle changes, when people already demonstrated they won't get a 6-12month vaccination that requires 0 lifestyle changes.
He stans every so called "progressive" that walks through the door. Mfrs literally been glazing Platner, a guy who literally has a nazi tattoo, went to war so he could kill some people, and worked as a private mercenary on top of that.
I think I'm about ready to switch to something QT based. Whether that is LXQT, KDE, or Trinity is still to be determined.
I'm a long time xfce user and my battle with CSD has ended with me losing. Too much stuff just breaks. I've more or less been forced to use adwaita as my theme for everything.
Hell, I'm already running plenty of QT software already.
NOoOooOO you can't call out the failings of our dSSa Democrats! Voting and organizing around them is the only thing American leftists are allowed to doOoOOO. 😤
I do agree with that, but what will separate him from the rest is if he calls attention to the fact that its happening and still holds firm to his beliefs when the entire establishment is against him.
My issue isn't that he isn't pure enough, it's that he's running with a bad crowd, and everyone else I can think of who ran with that crowd got neutered into being useless. (AOC comes to mind)
He's already said that he thinks the police department is an appropriate size and wasn't gonna increase it. But wasn't the issue that it was already oversized to begin with? Even in DSA, downsizing and cutting funding for the police is a popular position. The fact that some of his most progressive positions are to the right of many DSA members I've met IRL and online does not invoke confidence.
What I see often too is supporters of DSA-Democrats defending their move to the right in order to be more palatable to the general public and win an election, but when you do this YOU become more right wing, the PUBLIC does not move more left. You must always challenge capitalism to have an effective socialist program.
We will be sure to insist during self-criticism that there are no strategic changes to be made and that insert excuse was the reason things failed (again).