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it's the domestic policies bit, the logic is that the left can't do anything and if they try to ask for different foreign policies it'll achieve nothing. so they are voting for a more comfortable position in the imperial core because they think it's impossible to affect the comfort of those outside of it (defeatism when it comes to anti-imperialist policies)
logic can't break people out of that brain prison because the defeatism is emotional, it's an internalized helplessness created from decades of violent repression of the left
I wouldn't try to "defeat" his defeatism, but show his defeatism can't infect you. He wants to feel better about capitulating which is why he is trying to bring you into the fold. Whatever he chooses to do, that is on him. His argument isn't going to convince you, and say as much.
Besides, if he is so convinced for will bring better domestic policies he should go doorknocking, because 50% of the electorate does not vote. If he really thinks her domestic policies will work, he should have no problem convincing non-voters.
And just for the sake of the bit...
:posting: :posting: :posting:Banging the sign again...
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i agree with this, it is much harder to do questionable things in the name of hopelessness if people surrounding you simply aren't hopeless