I mean, I’m pretty sure it was part of Harris’ platform to increase taxes on the 1%, it was just pretty much ignored by the legacy media, who are now just the mouthpiece of the wealthy. That said, it wasn’t enough of a change. It was a bandaid when we need a tourniquet.
While I do think some ways of communicating are certainly more effective than others, social change also requires some amount of tension to be effective. Cordial methods are often the first to be tried, and are also most often summarily ignored.
Moderates often find tension emotionally distressing because it pierces their perception of themselves as a morally just person. They sometimes perceive what is often valid criticism as being yelled at. This tension is required in order to enact social change, though.
As someone who has been on the receiving end of that tension before, I can attest it’s an unpleasant experience, but it passes, and hopefully leaves room for some amount of contemplation in its place.
I’d highly recommend reading MLK’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail”, as he bridges the concept much more eloquently than I could ever hope to.
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Hmm.
I started playing Monifactory, a modern Gregtech CEu Minecraft modpack. Someone send help.
Basically extra complex Satisfactory, but everything is blocks.
Yeah, I guess I can’t just blame the legacy media, because even when she had the attention of the nation with a live mic, she still didn’t try to hammer it home.
I almost think the small wealth tax she was proposing put the “elites” solidly in Trump’s corner. So not only did she alienate her wealthy backers by doing something, but also the working class by not doing enough. It was pretty much the worst of both worlds.