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kaynorr posted:This is going to possibly sound weird (and may very well be wrong), but I'm going to throw out there that if you want people to be more open-minded, they have to be more economically secure. This pretty much answers the questions posed by the OP regarding political inactivity. Yes, the rise of the Right in the global West has horrifying implications, yes, climate change is very likely going to devastate humanity several decades from now, and yes, increasing inequality combined with decreasing socioeconomic mobility is creating a sort of neo-feudalism. But right now if I'm working full time for barely above poverty level wages, behind on my bills, with kids to take care of, I don't have the level of personal security required to even begin giving a poo poo about broader issues. There's a reason nearly every revolution has been started by the bourgeois: Working class serfs are a paycheque or two away from relocating their address to a cardboard box, with all the stress and mental load that comes with living with no security.
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