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In reply to the discussion: Reprise from 2011: Capitalism is dead. But how many of us is it gonna take with it? Look to OWS [View all]Leopolds Ghost
(12,875 posts)Just look at DU, or any other forum online or offline. The left has never been more dead in the US.
I can't even FIND a group of people that agrees with me on the most basic of progressive principles
or wants to start a "progressive / populist" club, and I live in what used to be one of the most liberal
towns in the us.
And the amount of vitriol directed against left-libertarians and traditional progressives on DU is stomach-churning. It's one of the reasons I rarely post anymore.
Then there's the fact that you can go among the most radical left people you choose to, and ask them about history (say, Occupy, or the Seattle movement, or the 60s) and they will draw an absolute, ignorant blank. Then you have their parents and wives and husbands and partners, moderate liberals and "secularists" and "centrists" and "mainstream folks" who are equally ignorant of civics, economics, social justice, or basic human morality.
The fact is that our world is fucked. Primarily thanks to global warming but still.
Did you know half of all the animals in the world died in the last 20-40 years?