Luckily, this is the world at large and not a room with hyena in it. Also, we all know where the fucking door is, it’s actually right behind us, we’re all just too scared to open it.

We’re already so far behind and more of this centrist “being careful” stuff is not only cowardly, but it’s never actually even worked for much more than delaying, and intensifying, the issues. Far too many people believe that anything done by “the left” must be dreamland stuff that we can’t possibly actually do. You press them on it and it quickly becomes clear that it’s all just baseless, vibes-based nonsense which is rooted in what can only be considerer a hostage situation that they keep supporting.

We need to focus on making ourselves stronger. We need to expand and reinforce the rights of workers, make real effort to tackle the housing crisis(supply of houses no one can afford will change nothing), start making trade connections with reliable countries, and for fuck’s sake we have to start taxing the rich and corporations. Carney is doing the opposite of those things, but the average Canadian has the economic understanding of a toddler so here we are.

[–] qprimed@lemmy.ml 3 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (1 children)

understood and agreed. thanks for the excellent response.

edit: the enormity of the problem can make incrementalism seem like an acceptable drug.

[–] Soup@lemmy.world 2 points 6 hours ago

Any time, and I get that. It’s scary out there, but fortunately we still have some power even when we don’t believe we do, and those “extreme” solutions we keep hearing about are mostly just “extremely different” to the ruling class’ “let us do whatever we want without consequences” plan that has simply been normalized.