Because if you're fighting us in a culture war, you're
not gonna be fighting the elite.
You're gonna be too distracted to fight them since you're
fighting us.
They want you to think that immigrants are the reason
why you're not making more money at your job.
So you don't notice that the CEO of your company,
who just gave himself a raise, by the way, hasn't
given you a raise in years, even though you're probably
doing more work now than you were doing when you
first started since they laid off people and never replaced
them because the company wanted to make a few more
bucks.
And it's only a matter of time before they replace
you with a robot, not an immigrant.
Don't be afraid of an immigrant taking your job in
2024 when they are creating the AI right now to
replace all of us.
They want you to think that black and brown people
and DEI have made you less safe when you fly
in an airplane.
So you don't realize that the safety issues stem from
the CEOs of these companies like Boeing cutting corners to
save a few bucks.
A black pilot didn't make the doors of one of
their planes blow off.
A female train conductor didn't cause the train to derail
in East Palestine.
Greedy CEOs who bribe politicians to deregulate their companies are
responsible for these things.
They want you to think that climate change is a
hoax and that the people who are concerned about it
are alarmist communists that want you to live in hobbit
homes and and eat bugs or some shit.
So that way, you know, you're mad at them for
that, as opposed to the CEOs of fossil fuel companies
who are destroying the only habitable planet that we all
have.
They want you to spot the woke mind virus everywhere
you look in video games and movies and TV shows.
Because if they're priming you to see LGBTQ plus people
and people of color as the enemy, you're not gonna
realize that elites are your true enemy.
They've brainwashed you into thinking that people who are different
from you, they're the real threat.
They're the real enemy.
And they've bought off all of our politicians.
They've rigged our entire system against us and they're richer
than ever while Americans are poorer than ever.
Most Americans can't afford a $500 emergency.
Whereas multi-millionaires and billionaires are buying their fourth mansion and
second yacht, and they're sharing photos of these lavish lifestyles
on Instagram while your grandmother struggles to pay her mortgage
on social security.
They have no fucking shame.
They have it all and they want more.
ame And it's a zero sum g.
You have to pay for these lifestyles
They're paying less taxes and you have to pay more
because they have the power.
So fuck you.
They got theirs and they want more.
They want you to have nothing.
And billionaires like Elon Musk, who bought himself a position
in Trump's administration wants to take away your social security,
even though you've paid into that your entire life.
That's the immigrant you should want to deport, not some
innocent abolita who came here looking for a better life
for her family.
Elites lie to you about Medicare for All because these
health insurance companies profit off of your pain and suffering.
They pay politicians to lie to you about a single
period healthcare system and they say, oh, that's socialism.
You should be afraid of it because our current for-profit
system has made them rich.
So they want you to believe that something better that
all the other countries have adopted is actually worse for
you.
And if we had healthcare that was free at the
point of service, the gravy train would be over for
these CEOs.
So politicians let us suffer and die so these companies
can leech off of us some more.
They're distracting you by pitting you against queer people and
black and brown people because if you're fighting them, you're
gonna be too busy to fight the people at the
top who is actually fucking you over in a plethora
of ways.
But you have to understand that fellow working class people
are not your enemies, regardless if they're gay or trans,
black or brown, Muslim or atheist or an immigrant, they
are not your enemies.
They are not responsible for your economic anxiety.
And even though you probably felt like the system was
unfair, but you didn't know how to articulate how it
was unfair, probably noticed that the rich were doing pretty
great.
They were getting richer while you kept getting poor year
after year after year.
And people like Ben Shapiro tricked you into thinking all
of those problems stemmed from immigrants or trans people.
They tricked you into hating innocent people that are also
getting fucked over by the same system that's fucking over
you.
CEOs are the ones that you should be hating.
Billionaires, elites, oligarchs, they are the ones that are the
cause of your pain and suffering.
They are all of our common enemy.
But people like Ben Shapiro turned us into each other's
common enemy.
He is paid to distract you while the rich robs
you blind.
It would love nothing more than to stop fighting you
in a culture war and instead join forces with you
to fight in the class war.
But here's the thing that means the people that are
going to fight alongside you have to be on equal
footing.
A trans woman would love nothing more than to fight
a class war with you, but she can't do that
if she also has to focus on her humanity when
it's under attack or if she fears for her life
every time she leaves her home.
An immigrant can't fight a class war with you if
you continue to see them as the enemy and call
for their deportation.
And if they have to be worried about deportation or
for like they're not welcome in this movement, a gay
man can't just fight the culture war with you if
he thinks that his marriage rights are under attack because
he's got to take time to protect those gains that
he's made too.
So if you're serious about fighting a class war, you
have to stop fighting the culture war first.
And you have to stop viewing other people as the
enemy entirely.
Period.
Full stop.
It's already hard enough to fight a class war when
your boss has you working longer hours for lower wages
and you're already tired when you come home and you
feel like shit.
But if you also have to fight for your basic
civil rights too, it diverts attention away from the class
struggle that we all desperately want to be able to
fight with you.
So if you're serious about changing this country for the
better once and for all, and taking back the wealth
CEOs stole from us, that necessitates you seeing the humanity
in people that Ben Shapiro and his ilk have demonized.
It requires you to accept that you not only have
to welcome trans people into your movement wholeheartedly, but you
have to fight alongside them for their rights as well,
for their emancipation as well.
Because they're not gonna fight for you if you're not
gonna fight for them
You can't have true class solidarity if you think that
the people who are fighting alongside you should have less
rights than you.
And you can't expect them to join you in a
political movement unless you unequivocally repudiate the divisive politics that
separated you both in the first place.
That is the first step.
And I hate the term culture war because it minimizes
something that affects people's lives in a profound way.
We're talking about civil rights and basic human dignity, and
you have to internalize the fact that none of us
are free until all of us are free.
Race, sex, class, it is all intertwined, and you have
to see that.
You can't expect marginalized people to postpone their own liberation
and emancipation or put aside the fight for now for
civil rights in order to fight this class war with
you, because we have to do both things simultaneously.
We can walk and shoe gum at the same time.
So if you're serious about changing this country for the
better, and you should be, and you really want to
take on the rich bastards that are keeping you down
and making you poor and keeping you that way, you
have to stop fighting marginalized people and start fighting for
marginalized people.
And then they will fight alongside you.
That is how you cultivate class solidarity.
It is going to take a lot of time for
you to deprogram yourself because trying to resist years of
right wing brainwashing will force you to reckon with a
lot of beliefs that are gonna make you feel uncomfortable.
You're gonna experience cognitive dissonance and even anxiety.
But that internal struggle is so worthwhile because it is
the true path to liberation for us all.