I've worked 13 hours straight and had to organize a push to get us fed dinner.
There's a good chance I'm stuck here for 2 more hours, meaning I get 0 time to do anything except sleep and do this again.
I want to quit so badly, but I'm basically forced to be here because this job market is such shit that it took a year to get this job. And I consider myself lucky to have this.
There's a thread on lemmygrad from someone that's also exhausted around the discourse about the American "left". Yes we suck, yes we are privileged compared to a lot of people, yes our organizing is tame and not effective, yes my material conditions mean I'm not doing adventurism and neither are my comrades.
BUT don't claim we're not trying. I know people working two jobs. I technically have 2 jobs and am maybe able to get back on my feet financially in a few months. We still do what we can and it's not enough but we're not at that point. Yeah that's privileged if you call being scared shitless of being homeless and being abused by literally every other human here...
I'm tired
I strongly agree with most of what you are saying but I would gently push back on this point:
The American left is as weak as it is because the US has spent the last century bombing, economically disenfranchising, imprisoning, and assassinating every left-aligned or not-white-supremacist-aligned movement. Immediate examples that come to mind are Malcolm X, MLK, Fred Hampton, Eugene Debs, the bombings in Tulsa and Philadelphia, the Homestead strike, and the leadership of BLM after Ferguson.
I meant as in after the revolution is done and the U.S. capitalist state is gone