It is quite telling that online leftists will insist borders are man-made and meaningless, the rich use all of us as means to an end and solidarity is essential, before going.... oh, right, yes. Working-class English people are colonising scum... Illiterate folk with shit teeth, shit food and no culture.
I mean, if only we had centuries-long documentation of how classism has operated in this country and quite literally left working-class people dying in ditches. If only there were extensive historical records of a labour movement spanning more than a century, rather than just bored, chronically online dickheads with microfringes trying to distance themselves from the privilege of being white and middle-class.
I genuinely fucking hate the internet at this point because even I, a lifelong leftist (thanks, autism), feel completely done. I am so fucking tired of this utter shite that exclusively serves billionaires and the political class, while demonstrating that nuance is something people cherry-pick according to whichever political spark notes they have consumed through social media.
And yes, I am talking about "the left" broadly here, because that is how politics functions in public. Farage and his ilk do not need every leftist to believe this shite. They only need enough visible examples to build a convincing caricature of a movement that despises ordinary people.
You can argue all day that these people do not represent the real left, but if they are the version of the left people repeatedly encounter, the distinction becomes politically meaningless.
If ordinary people repeatedly encounter left-wing politics as little more than contempt for them, their families, their accents, their food, their communities and the place they were born, what exactly are we supposed to conclude?
They will conclude that the left is full of shit. That it hates them, while also feeling the need to lecture them endlessly as they are simply trying to survive economically.
We are not lab rats for your daddy issues. Maybe try therapy. Touching grass. Not surrounding yourself exclusively with people who circle-jerk everything you say while insisting everybody else is the problem.
Maybe you are the fucking issue sometimes.
