The right wing has spent generations embedding themselves into corridors of power, from the local school board up to and including the supreme court.

A huge number of the left wing typically don't even vote. So then when the left do get energized but it's not enough to stem the tide or accomplish too much, because they didn't invest in the long game... then they start this hyper-ideological, cultural revolution style thinking. It's exhausting.

Folks, your opponents put in the effort while you just showed up for the test.

Yeah there are some funny people out there and I would never have moved over to the left if not for more reasonable people that talk normal and actually engage with ideas.

Marxism and Christianity only share the fact that they contain frameworks for analyzing material reality(Marxism through Materialism and Christianity through representing reality as though it is divine, and thus explainable via the divine), and this post seems to not be willing to honestly engage with Marxism as a concept.

1. Marxists do not oppose incremental change. Marxists believe that minor concessions under Capitalism are insufficient to actually fix the underlying problems, and this point of view is built on a thorough understanding of the Marxist critique of Capitalism.

2. Marxists do not oppose reform, they just believe it is impossible to do successfully without sliding backward, because the state is built in a manner that supports Capitalism and resists change.

3. Marxism is an economic critique of Capitalism, a philosophical framework, and a call to action. It is a complete set of tools to look at the world, analyze it, and how to fix it. In this manner, it can be superficially compared to Christianity, but only on the surface.

That's really it.

How can one tell the difference between someone who truly believes that and a redcap cosplaying as a "leftist" to wedge drive?

Evangelicals come with serial numbers now?

I mean, how long do you expect people to participate in a game where there is no way to change the outcome for the better? People can act stupid, but that doesn't mean they are stupid - more and more people are starting to see how this spectacle that the political racketeers and their media cronies insist on calling "Democracy!" really works. If you expect people to just bounce back from such realizations and simply "vote strategically" you're in for disappointment.

I'm not USian... but if I was, would I go vote with you? Sure. But that's only because I've had a long time to digest the fact that my vote means absolutely nothing (so-called "representative democracy" is a racket everywhere - not just the US), and would only do it out of solidarity with all the people who are terrified of what is coming next.

I've seen the ways that people have tried to get out the vote for this year's election in the US.. and I'm afraid to report that, so far, it's not working - and that's not your fault..

Somthing somthing horseshoe theory.