By Matt Underwood he used to be a libertarian adjacent but as of recent seems to favor trump under the guise “Biden won’t fix anything, I want to see everything burn down and get rebuilt, at least trump will lead to that.” I’ve told him about climate change, SC seats, all the short term victories we really need for the long term. Didn’t seem too budged. It sucks. There are still many apathy voters who feel like nothing will get better, and I’ve felt that sentiment before but if we can do anything to slow down our collective car crash, I’m on board with doing that.
That philosophy is called accelerationism. It works on the flawed assumption that you’ll move in the right direction and speeding up is correct. The underlying mistake is that it fails to account for the fact that you can’t ever know what you’re accelerating to.
Not to mention the false assumption that they will always be in the group that is in a better position after than they’re now. They will always be the savior, never the victim. Always holding the gun, never on the receiving end of it. Always the winner, never the loser.
That’s not apathy, that’s selfishness. If we “burn it all down,” who suffers? The poor, the sick, those dealing with addictions, those without money and power and resources. People who want it all to burn down don’t care about those would end up burning.
How nice it must feel to be privileged enough to think this way? I truly don’t get it. This mentality isn’t much different than radical conservatives. In both instances there is mass suffering with no means to an end.
Some on the far left thing that a fascist take over will eventually lead to a socialist revolution. Like please where the fuck in history has that been successful? Furthermore, the power to oppress in a fascist state would be much harder to overcome, making a revolution much less likely.