Tucker denounces US before a big European audience

I would just add, as I attempted to do on the program today, that it is important to denounce the efforts from self-described leftists, who themselves want to denigrate and denounce those that they consider ideologically imperfect or impure.

This is the same mentality that denounces China for not living up to their (the Western "leftist's") idealistic image of what a "socialist country" should be. These folks seemingly have no appreciation for reality and how progress and shifts towards improvement will necessarily come about in a gradual way. They await in vain the fully formed ideologically-pure, post-scarcity society, to fall from the sky, while they vehemently denounce the impurity of those, who are most visibly undergoing the positive ideological transformation from ignorance and towards a more complete and better grasp of reality.

It goes without saying that we must be on guard from opportunists who will attempt to co-opt popular sentiment in order to steer popular opinion back into the confines of acceptable bourgeois debate. For instance it would be misguided to view Trump and Carlson as the modern equivalent of Mao and Zhou Enlai.

But, focusing on the fear that the ideological shortcomings of these folks will result in a net negative for the movement, ignores the reality that the Trump phenomenon and the partial ideological awakening of people like Tucker Carlson and Oliver Anthony, are simply symptoms, and the most observable examples of the tremendous geopolitical and ideological changes, that are currently taking place.

It is our job to take advantage of this momentous opportunity and to help facilitate the proliferation of truth. Instead of denouncing and denigrating those that were former conservative partisans, or those who had previously embraced their conservative indoctrination, we need to collaborate with these folks in order to develop a broad working class coalition. It is utterly self defeating to allow the culture war and the liberal-conservative divide, to keep us from uniting around shared, working class interests.

While racism, bigotry, and chauvinism must be denounced and neither condoned nor tolerated, we should not assume that these are eternal defining features of everyone who is a Trump voter or who considers themselves to be religious. Yet this is exactly the self-defeating approach that seems to exist within much of the Western "left".

—Billy Bob
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