>>24509853>>reductionism of complex political and social topics to "just be a decent FUCKING human being"That's everyone though. Politics has been about weaponized empathy for a long time, it's the basis for keeping people in power without having to actually push popular policies.
If you have a political corporation, commonly called a "party", that gets its funding from a very different group of people than the group that provides the votes, you would think you'd have to make some tough decisions, choosing between helping one group or the other, right? Well, as it turns out, the voter base loves, over anything else, to feel like they did something good. That they're on the right side of history, and one day they want to look back on the 5 bucks they gave to charity and the politicians they picked and say to themselves "I fought for what was right".
The revolution is a product, it's been bought and sold for decades. Give the people the ability to FEEL like they're the good guys, and they'll vote for you election cycle after election cycle regardless of what you actually do in power.
Remember, in politics there are two sides, the people that agree with you and the evil, wrong people who eat babies. Their corporate backers are corrupt, your corporate backers are benevolent. That's how the system works, by breaking the idea of freedom, of change, of progression off from anything material and selling it to the people like an NFT.
The only purpose grassroots candidates serve is as a way to funnel the votes and donations of the young, impassioned masses into the corporate-approved, safe-edgy candidates that win primaries. So yeah, as the millennials said during GWOT, and the boomers said during 'Nam, it really is about being moral enough as a person to agree with me, rather than be one of the evil monster-men with the wrong opinions. it really is about being "a decent FUCKING human being", and it always has been.