O’Brien detailed how Harris reportedly cut short her union roundtable, taking only three of 16 planned questions before departing 20 minutes early.
His account described Harris telling a board member, “Teamsters? You better get on board. Better get on board soon,” before the meeting.
Leftists simply cannot comprehend what ideological conviction means.
The entire EU willingly sacrifices itself to slow the decline of the US empire: “why Europe so stupid and sabotage themselves?”
That’s called ideological conviction.
It’s ironic that of all the people who should understand ideology the best, most present day Western leftists I’ve seen keep failing to recognize that their opponents are far more ideologically fervent and committed than they ever will be.
Ideological conviction in large groups arises out of party discipline and organization, the ideological fanatics of capital literally have countless institutions and orgs to discipline them and for certain minds this can have a similar effect to as if god himself was commanding them, there’s confidence in big numbers and well-stocked armies
For us on the otherhand we have to rely on self-education, passion, family, mentorship and friends to come to our ideology, it’s not a regimented boarding school like with the scions of capital, for many of us it’s a dangerous hidden mountain path with traps and pitfalls at every bend and turn, with guides few and far between
It’s not purely ideological though.
The ones in the EU doing this materially benefit from selling out and hope to be integrated into the US elite after EU eats shit. Same old story.
It’s called atlantic council and/or blaire institute of regime change offered a cushy gig (see finland). They don’t have convictions, they don’t have interests of people in heart, they don’t have ideology; some dipshit from mckinsey comes with a cliff notes paper saying you should buy f-35, and your children will get no-show consulting gig in brussels, and they’ll do it.
Why would someone torch their country economy? Why wouldn’t they if they don’t see it as “their country”, their fortunes aren’t connected to gdp growth or life expectancy or amount of homeless people or disabled people dignity.
The sad reality of politics. It would be somewhat reassuring to think that these people are committed ideologues instead of mindless bureaucrats who are easily bought.
It’s just a little wisp of leftover liberalism, the subconscious hope for the “opposition” to just be arrogantly stupid and not also maliciously complicit. Of course, it’s vital to highlight the falseness of this idea to those who still hold onto it.