I’m very curious to hear your thoughts on this topic. What can we do to fix this? If you’ve already tried something what were your results? What worked and what do you think could be done better?
My thoughts on this are that we keep electing politicians who support billionaires and elite instead of ordinary people like you and me. In addition people are loosing a sense of community and are isolated at home. I think these two things can be fixed simultaneously by getting out and talking about class and corrupt politicians in person and having mutual support networks.
These corrupt politicians typically get elected by exploiting people’s fears and biases. For example a corrupt politician might blame your problems on immigrants or minorities. Meanwhile people won’t notice that they are being robbed by the billionaires.
I read interviews of people who used to be part of hate groups. The consistent theme I noticed is that they had past traumas and issues which draw them towards hateful ideologies. https://edition.cnn.com/2020/11/12/opinions/former-white-supremacist-how-to-tackle-hate-buckley/index.html
When talking to people it’s important to listen and respect them first before you say your points. This article has a good technique for talking with people: https://www.vice.com/en/article/how-to-change-a-voters-mind-is-deep-canvassing/ I’ve been using myself and I can vouch for it.
That’s a great idea! Imagine if people stop showing up to work during the Trump administration. As long as the public understand it’s Trump’s fault and Republican’s fault it could make a big difference. Communication will be very important. I think Biden got hurt by the port strikes even though he did much better managing it than Trump would have.
I suspect it would be more effective to keep it as a class war working class vs billionaires and politicians instead of a left/right issue, most working class people across the political spectrum want universal healthcare, campaign finance reform, taxes for billionaire oligarchs, etc. Dystopias are built on the wealthy leeches keeping us at each other’s throats.