npub1jxehkaxs70ye7qv6h9yvfw887spcdkull9cay6x2yz4urjts39psjx6us2 (npub1jxe…6us2) Yes, neoliberal parties are (finally) dying off, after four decades, together with all of their cynical free market utopia.
But the "marginalized left" problem is really something that keeps blowing my mind. Up to the 1990s the most marginalized/oppressed communities used to compactly vote for Labour/socialist parties. Now they've flipped to the other side of the spectrum.
I've heard all kind of reasons behind this change - from the left having turned too much towards the center, to the left having turned too much towards the left and alienating moderate votes, to the left turning too much towards the elites, or too much towards the oppressed minorities, to favouring electoral coalitions that are so broad that ideals get diluted, to favouring fragmentation in the form of small parties that eventually gives the majority prize to the opposition.
It almost sounds like whatever we do, we're doomed to do it wrong in somebody's eyes, and we deserve to be punished. In these elections we had a very strong candidate (Timmermans), with a strong alliance between Labour, green and socialist left, and a strong program. Yet, we lost again to a fascist piper. I'm really not sure anymore if the problem is us or something else.
Fabio Manganiello /
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