talking about left wing discourse as a single unified entity is insane, when it's millions or billions of people with different beliefs, formations, etc. Like in everything else, some discourse will be productive and some will be misguided.
It’s not very hard to find smart, well informed left wing / progressive discussion - if that’s what you’re looking for. I think it would be great if we got better at recognising that a lot of political discussion pretty silly. The more attention we give to cranks when we straw man our political opposites by spotlighting the latest silly trite out of their mouths the more we elevate them within their own political tribe.
I wonder if this might be easier to fix in Australia than the US because our compulsory voting system means politicians can’t win by mobilising their base, when everybody votes you need to persuade the other side to win
compulsory vote in the US & Canada would be interesting. It also has no chance of happening as the right in the US is focusing so much energy making it hard for minorities to vote because they know it would fuck them
One of my exes is to the left of the literal Cuban communist party. I'm right of the Cuban communists, yet also left of the UK's Labour Party. The UK's Labour Party is to the left of the USA's Democrat party.
She's an anarcho-communist. Cuban communism is famously the opposite of an anarchy.
