I am on the precipice of one and don’t want that to turn me into a disengaged normies, lib, or chud. I know that a local DSA chapter was financially backed by a person of incredible means, so I wonder what keeps such people left wing or at least SocDem.

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    6 days ago

    He’s not wrong, but the idea that the government is just one of many tools used by the ruling class to enslave humanity—that just doesn’t register with these people. They love the police and military but hate the government

    This is where a little liberal theory can be used judicially. Anything on the separation of powers thesis. It’s hard to push people to understand the state from a Marxist perspective when they don’t fully understand what it looks like from the liberal perspective.