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In reply to the discussion: I only get into trouble on DU when I try to get to what's real. [View all]lostnfound
(17,512 posts)I will think that over. Very thoughtful answers.
The last comment about incrementalism - perhaps AA's HAVE to be realistic -- have less patience for improbable solutions - because they are stuck dealing wil real life situations every day, injustice is not an abstraction but a daily reality?
The second comment, that the messages are always delivered in frame of economic injustice, is interesting an important as well. (Jung said, tell me a person's greatest pain today, and I'll tell you his greatest growth tomorrow.) Progressives are often ideologues, they feel this sharp contrast between their economic framework / interpretation (capital is exploiting the working class and needs to be restrained) and the mainstream economic theology (capitalism do or die). If you see blue when the rest of the world says it's red, you get more adamant or focused om what you see that others don't. Maybe if Progressives really listen to your second comment, it could make them better by being seen as less ideological and more rounded in their message. Which could help not only with AA but with moderates who get scared by "ideologues".