The Online Left is Falling Apart: And That’s Okay.

Unf*cking The Republic

UNFTR Media

Government, News, Politics

4.9 • 683 Ratings

🗓️ 28 December 2024

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Max goes back to finish the hat at the close of another year. 2025 has the potential to be one of the most disruptive in living memory. The rapid rollout of Project 2025 initiatives, fireworks spewing from the Trump distraction machine, the brewing onslaught of job losses due to AI and the continuing surge of far-right governments across the globe are significant weather events that could turn to a super storm tsunami if they all take off at once. With no semblance of unity on the left to coalesce in opposition to the gathering storm, we are in for a rough patch. So what will it take to settle in and begin building a strong left again? What can we garner from the splinter of the online left and other lessons from history to formulate a winning strategy to move forward?

Chapters:

Intro: 00:00:16

Chapter One: Digital Natives Come of Age. 00:00:54

Chapter Two: The Online Left: A Digital Tower of Babel. 00:12:36

Chapter Three: Unf*cking the Left. 00:17:19

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0:00.0	I have to finish the hat, how you have to finish the hat,
0:08.4	how you watch the rest of the world from a window while you finish the hat.
0:16.5	I have some rather maudlin thoughts as we head into 2025,
0:22.9	but they're tinged with a slight optimism for the future. A number of issues are occupying my headspace at the moment, but there's
0:27.9	one in particular that needs to be addressed before all others. The fracture on the left has become
0:34.4	a chasm. If we don't heal this divide in short order and align on certain
0:39.3	fundamentals, we are dust in the wind. I have receipts and some thoughts on how we get started.
0:46.8	So let's begin.
0:49.7	UNFTR
0:51.4	Chapter 1. Digital nativesatives come of age.
0:58.8	The unifying force of generational candidate Barack Obama failed to morph into a unified movement,
1:05.7	partly because it was all promise and no platform.
1:09.2	The failures of the Bush years were many.
1:11.6	Disasterous and costly wars abroad,
1:14.1	financial cataclysm resulting in the global financial crisis in 2008 and 2009,
1:19.1	the rapid loss of civil liberties under a new mass surveillance regime.
1:23.1	Just some highlights to name a few.
1:26.1	Obama was the anti-Bush, smart, accomplished, youthful, and
1:30.8	sincere. False bravado was replaced with genuine swagger. No more seat-of-the-pants,
1:36.9	Texas-style leadership, only cool, calculating policy precision. In retrospect, however, the Obama years represented a movement in a man,
1:46.8	not a man in charge of a movement. We were so desperate to stop the bleeding that we were willing
1:52.1	to check foundational leftist principles at the door. So when people like Cornell West and
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