Apologies in advance for further inundating everybody’s headspace with celebrity slop, but I wanted to blab about this:
I generally have no faith in public personalities to hold any convictions at all, so it has been refreshing for Hasan to adhere to his position against voting for Gruesome Newscum. I don’t at all mean to imply that he’s perfect, or that people should look to him as a leader in any respect, it’s just nice to see something like that happening and getting broad exposure. Feels good.
He’s talking to an audience who’s been trained to never exercised critical thinking. Anything that tickles a sense of ‘things are kind of fucked, here’s why’ can and often is something that can be built on. We cannot see all ends and roads that this can lead to for someone to pick up a damn book.
I was one that this sort of pipeline worked on.
You be the more advanced educator, let people learn to walk before trying to run.
That said, I’m all ears on any analysis and commentary you have on Lenin’s approach to electoralism.