Wow… great analysis by actualized.org blog
“6) The anti-mainstream left are useful idiots for fascism.
Woke anti-war leftists and progressives who constantly whine about how centrist liberals are, in practice, just end up being useful idiots for fascists and conservatives. Such people love to whine about Gaza, genocide, war, empire, socialism, trans-rights or whatever, but in the end their ideas never win, they just mobilize right-wing passions on the one hand and demoralize and sour people to liberalism and center-left moderates on the other hand. This directly leads to fascists like Trump winning, which then makes all those important issues even worse. Such anti-mainstream leftists have good intentions but they are so politically naive they end up regressing society. They don't have enough self-awareness nor pragmatism to understand that their ideas are far too radical to be sustainable, and in the meantime they cause tangible and powerful backlash and division. I'm referring here to people like Krystal Ball, who detests Biden so much that she influenced millions of her viewers to basically elect Trump. This is what Lenin called a useful idiot, but for the right. All the left-wing RFK Jr supporters just became useful idiots for the right, and they are a major reason why Trump won. Even Chris Hedges, who I respect, ended up being a useful idiot for the right in this election. A divided left means victory for fascism. That's real politics.
Such leftists will make all sorts of excuses and rationalizations about the evils of centrism, but in the end this is what happened. It's just too ugly for them to admit to themselves. Gaza will now be completely destroyed thanks to their naive moralizing. You traded Biden for Trump — one of the dumbest political things you could do. My advice to you leftists is to be mindful of how your ideals work against you. It's a very counter-intuitive trap you fall into. Politics requires better calculation than that. Hating the center more than you hate the right is not wise if you are a real progressive.
Here's what these progressives do not understand: the country is not failing to go progressive due to centrists. It is failing to go progressive because very few humans are developed enough to sustain a progressive majority. There is no progressive majority, that's just your echo-chamber. So don't be mad at the center. The center cannot magically make tens of millions of people progressive. If you are progressive, recognize that you are a very lucky elite human being. Don't squander it by helping elect fascists and regressive right-wingers. As a progressive you need to understand that as an elite you will not get your way. Your way is too advanced for the vast majority of humans who operate on much simpler terms. You might care about genocide — the average human does not. This is reality.
