I get that CPUSA has some bad reputation. This clip is a part of a call-in show. It features 4-5 calls from American hogs and the CPUSA guy responds to their questions. I think that this interview was interesting at least. I will post more information in a comment.
video link
https://www.c-span.org/video/?536104-4/joe-sims-communist-party-usa-campaign-2024=
We can dunk on the 2A USA Dome women all we want, but honestly, she seemed very genuine to me. She’s obviously riddled with right wing induced anxieties, but when she said, “If you’re gonna say we’re taking all the guns, sure I’d give mine up, but…” it surprised me a little. She sounds like the kind of person who, if her fears could be dispelled, would be open to changes and reforms around the 2A. The only thing keeping her in this mindset is this fantasy that she’ll get shot by some gangbanger. There is no way to know what percentage of the population she represents, but it’s interesting nonetheless.
Her comments on the “US Dome” were clearly one of defeatist sarcasm because again, her position was rooted in this fear that China is doing nothing and will never do anything. Obviously, WE know that’s not the case, but she clearly has no one casting a light on that shadow for her. She doesn’t think we should literally build a dome, she is using this extreme example of “the only thing we can do” to solve the issue because it’s clear that she also believes “no one else is doing, or going to do, anything about climate change”.
There was no climate denial on her part, there was no “from my gold dead hands” rhetoric on guns. Just pure fear and defeatism.
Yea she sounded annoyed and frustrated with politics she sounded like she wanted something change but felt like she had absolutely no outlet for it in any political party what so ever.
Look I get that people don’t see any point in the American electoral system and that voting seems beyond hopeless, but for me personally expecting the American people to rise up in a people’s protracted war against the US government seems a bigger stretch than trying to get people like that lady into one room with Marxists/Leftists of any kind who can maybe help and address her concerns.
For people into peoples protracted war the US Army sure as hell could use some reforming if not a complete restructuring and thinking about what a socialist army could look like would be fun.
But fuck idk why I even care I’m not involved in organising in politics and not in the US
honestly the actual rising up is usually done by a minority. even then knowing the truth and being a good person can count as a way of rising up. sometimes you don’t need to be a full time activist.
people just need to not be actively misinformed. we tend to focus on the overt shitty fascists but most people just want to find a solution for their problems and are tired of being lied to. most people tend to be actually good people, the few shitty ones are the ones ruining it all for the rest of us.
It’s just the bar is that low.