We all really, really need to abandon the idea that pointing out hypocrisy and inconsistency does or means anything to anyone. Literally it’s all we do all day on the left, and all it does is signal to the orcs that they’re winning. As long as we’re outraged and pointing out this thing or that thing we’re angry about, they feel they’re winning.
They are simply not complex enough to care or internalize anything deeper about the notion of hypocrisy so it’s just a noise to them, and even to the larger liberal America broadly, they don’t know what’s real or not anymore and have totally tuned out the news. Foreign agents have been seeding both sides of every debate for so long, that average people who don’t follow every story just see both sides screaming the other is lying and go back to work. They vote for whoever social media tells them is good.
We need to redirect energy to telling a new story, about how the wealthy are taking our future, and abandon this endless, worthless parade of reactions. We are always on response, never proactive, never trying to change the story or get ahead of it, always screaming about this latest bad thing they did and focusing on it like they want. We can do a lot better broadly.
We all really, really need to abandon the idea that pointing out hypocrisy and inconsistency does or means anything to anyone. Literally it’s all we do all day on the left, and all it does is signal to the orcs that they’re winning. As long as we’re outraged and pointing out this thing or that thing we’re angry about, they feel they’re winning.
They are simply not complex enough to care or internalize anything deeper about the notion of hypocrisy so it’s just a noise to them, and even to the larger liberal America broadly, they don’t know what’s real or not anymore and have totally tuned out the news. Foreign agents have been seeding both sides of every debate for so long, that average people who don’t follow every story just see both sides screaming the other is lying and go back to work. They vote for whoever social media tells them is good.
We need to redirect energy to telling a new story, about how the wealthy are taking our future, and abandon this endless, worthless parade of reactions. We are always on response, never proactive, never trying to change the story or get ahead of it, always screaming about this latest bad thing they did and focusing on it like they want. We can do a lot better broadly.
This, 100%. Fanning the flames of outrage only works on people who are already on your side.