Comment on What do you think the solution to selling progressive politics to young men is ?

• daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  And what if what you try to accomplish or the way you try to do it is not the way they want it done?

  A common problem with the left movements these days is that they put more effort in convincing that in listening, because everyone who becomes politically active automatically thinks they know better than everyone else.

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  • Feathercrown@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    people who learn about politics think they know more about politics

    Yeah no shit

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    • daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Why you change my words?

      Anyway, they think they know, but they don’t. They don’t know better than anyone else, due the nature of politics their opinion on matters should not have any more weight than the common folk, that’s why we chose democracy as a form of government anyway. If we do not believe in the fact that everyone opinion matter the samy I don’t know why would we pretend it does, let’s stablish an aristocracy and be done with it.

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      • Feathercrown@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Everyone’s opinions don’t matter the same. If I take the time and energy to understand a topic, my opinion has more weight than Joe Schmo who looked it up on Facebook. As Isaac Asimov said:

        Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that ‘my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.’

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  • BussyCat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Then you don’t get elected…

    What I find funny is I have the exact opposite opinion that the left spends more time trying to appeal to voters than actually communicate what they are trying to do. So we end up with things like 250B to boost American manufacturing that got completely ignored

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    • daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Maybe no political party should have more than 5% of the votes. The fact that 50% of the population could agree on all issues doesn’t feel possible to me.

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