#west wing brain is so pernicious I know people who've never watched the show who have it

[thehumanarkle]

I'm 42 years old, and have been on-line since the 90s, and I am willing to make this statement with confidence.

Both the screencap and the commentary under it are true. On the plus side, most Leftists are not like this, much as Liberals would love to have you believe otherwise.

The Extremely Online Left (i.e. people whose activism is confined almost entirely to Twitter and maybe BlueSky) *is* made up of accelerationists with no grasp of history and think that allowing fascism to win will lead to Socialism, which is what an equally stupid segment of the German Left thought in the 1930s. Their slogan was "After Hitler, our turn." It was dumb enough when people were arguing that in 2016, but they still try to say it'll be the case now. When Trump is angrier, in more severe mental decline, and surrounded by even more sycophantic yes men than last time. Remember how much his first term sucked? Well, no I guess not or they wouldn't be saying such stupid shit would they? "The Democrats need to lose in 2024 to teach them a lesson!" *pfft* If the Democratic Party were institutionally capable of learning lessons in that way we wouldn't be in this mess in the first place.

And then there are the Liberals. Oh, these West Wing brain dorks. Like, it's nice that they seem to have finally gotten over the stupid "They go low, we go high" thing, but it is just embarrassing as fuck that it took them this long. These people have this religious devotion to "The Process." They believe so strongly that, well, like OP said, that

there’s an ”arc of the universe” that bends towards ”justice”

that they don't actually to do anything, the Machine of Democracy will fix everything by itself. Never mind that for the past 50+ years Conservatives have stripped that machine for spare parts and smeared feces on the remains. Honestly, what can I even say about the problems with how Liberals view how democracy works that wasn't nailed in this Ian Danskin video?

A lot of nice sentiments that ultimately lead to fascists gaining more power because Liberals value civility beyond the point of reason. Well, unless that Liberal takes money from AIPAC and you're pro-Palestinian, but I digress.

Um, crap, I actually forgot what I was going to write next. I got distracted by house stuff.

Yeah, so, tl;dr, the Extremely Online Left needs to touch grass, Liberals need to either move Left or at the very least be willing to compromise with us, and Conservatives suck and have always sucked going back to Edmund Burke.

I'm gonna go get some caffeine.

for a certain type of liberal, any radical change is unthinkable, just primitive superstision, and the only real way to achieve anything is to surrender it to the hands of the ”lesser evil” party year after year without deigning to demand a single thing from them, and defending every bad decision they make, based on a purely non-idealistic, not-in-any-way religious belief that there’s an ”arc of the universe” that bends towards ”justice”