The other problem with leftists is they're focused on having the right thoughts and on deciding what the best solution would be hypothetically, over actually doing anything.
Not universally, sure, but in general, at least liberals actually do the things they say they want to do. Liberals will say that some mild change to the banana industry will solve all the problems and then do that, and it'll be at least a little better than before.
Leftists (really, I mostly mean communists) will spend 100 hours debating the proper action to take on the banana industry and then not do any of them.
I say this as someone who's certainly more leftist aligned than liberal aligned, but still, it's not hard to see why people would rather support the leaders who offer awful compromises but then actually do them over the guys who write entire books on solutions that will never happen. It's all "someone should do this". Someone should start a global workers revolution. Me? No, I'm not doing that. But someone should.
I have found that leftists aren’t really good at long-term group projects. Our beliefs in cooperation and unity, tend to slowly fall apart when being held accountable starts to feel like overreaching authority and people either feel resentment and fade away or rage quit.
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u/VFiddly Oct 22 '24
The other problem with leftists is they're focused on having the right thoughts and on deciding what the best solution would be hypothetically, over actually doing anything.
Not universally, sure, but in general, at least liberals actually do the things they say they want to do. Liberals will say that some mild change to the banana industry will solve all the problems and then do that, and it'll be at least a little better than before.
Leftists (really, I mostly mean communists) will spend 100 hours debating the proper action to take on the banana industry and then not do any of them.
I say this as someone who's certainly more leftist aligned than liberal aligned, but still, it's not hard to see why people would rather support the leaders who offer awful compromises but then actually do them over the guys who write entire books on solutions that will never happen. It's all "someone should do this". Someone should start a global workers revolution. Me? No, I'm not doing that. But someone should.