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Also the past!
I don't expect many people to wake TF up to that fact.
In fact, even among the people you'd think would be more aware as a general rule, I will often see (mind you, this is usually coming from what is probably just an overly vocal minority and/or paid trolls there to try to disrupt and delay, but I'm sure this serves to push away would-be allies and make people generally feel helpless at the state of things in the opposition):
People playing oppression olympics. Lectures aimed at a portion of the left that aren't considered maximalist enough, or are thought not to tick enough "intersectional" checkboxes. Demands for age limits on politicians (WTF?). Demands for term limits (same thing: WTF?). Some portion of the left saying people (like Bernie Bros) are being misogynist or racist because they want to focus on issues of class. Single issue voters that will bow out if a Democrat says even one thing about that issue that pisses them off. People not realizing that, in the real world, you basically have two choices. The better choice may only support about 60% of what you want, maybe even less in some cases. You ain't getting a pretty pony when you go to vote. You are voting to try to maximize the good and minimize the damage, not create a utopia. That's life. I remember when I was 14, too. But I got better.
This last one is probably the most difficult and I struggle with this myself (believe that) - and it's this: not giving people a path for redemption. Sure, someone might have been a three time voter for Donvict and maybe even a bit racist and anti-woke and have stupid ideas about trans or whatever. But sometimes, just maybe, some people grow up. Or have an epiphany and change. Should we make them wear a scarlet letter for life? Or when someone shows that they genuinely want to do better, do we welcome that? When they get that first glimmer that, oh, this is all about class and setting us up to quarrel with each other over the dumbest of stuff (race, gender, age, religion, nationality, language), how can we help them on that path?
You can't reason with tankies. They are just as insufferable as MAGA.
Get a gun before they change the laws and the only people left with them are cops and conservatives.
And the present
And the Past.
But the future. Too
The idea that this is something new is just startling. The author must live in a cave somewhere.
Class warfare has been American politics for the past 250 years.
Class wars existed well before America was a hopeful blip on a distant future.
Class warfare was the future of us politics in 1968.
Class warfare is all around us presently, and is worldwide.
It is something that shapes every choice we make, and it is something that we must collectively stand up to and fight against.