askchapo

Yeah. I find it really difficult to be patient with these people, and I can't really be conspicuous, but making use of my general profile as a known leftist but generally non-threatening and unlikely to encourage radical action or engage in any myself, to be someone that people like her know they can come to when they just want to call a fascist a fascist and not be called crazy, to just be there and listen, and offer a non threatening suggestion or none at all, is something that seems to help and I don't suck too hard at doing it, and every time I have someone who used to dismiss me as a nutjob commie tell me I'm right or come to me screaming about the Gestapo, I feel a little less shit for being bad at being a leftist and not Doing Anything or being involved with any local organizations (if there even are any). Because these people aren't going to talk to a Card Carrying Commie when they're scared. But they might talk to Alex, a friend's younger friend who's just a little left of the liberal parties and has been saying it like it is since before 2016.

There's very little I feel like I can actually do as a leftist, besides quiet ideological alignment and agreement, because of the physical capacities I lack and the support I need in various areas that I lose the ability to get if I piss off a particular person who will never be any further than left of center and even then they'll only be generally left if it's out of necessity on a pet issue, but just being someone who can tell liberals around me starting to see how the world really is that they aren't crazy, it's everyone else who's crazy, that I can do, and it won't piss off that person... because half the time it's her I'm doing it for. Or she's doing it and I'm backing her up, which feels so good.