prematurely correct
https://peterbeinart.substack.com/p/the-costs-of-being-prematurely-correct
This applies directly to us.
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As things stand, we have to buttress our collective morale all the time . . . as we labor at the margins . . . currently getting very few votes and very little in the way of encouragement.
In that regard, thank goodness for Zack Polanski. He has turned progressive politics in the UK as much and as fast as attitudes within the Democratic Party have changed as described above by Peter Beinart. It’s a situation that the left in the United States can relate to because the British speak the same language we do.
For just as long as here, the Greens in the UK labored at the margins, got very few votes, and got very little in the way of encouragement. For all those years their political orientation was correct, as ours is here. Suddenly — all of sudden! — the time was right and the messenger was effective and the Greens got widely embraced. Instead of dismissed and demonized.
It will happen here. Then it will be all: “Oh, sure, of course, self-evident.” Ecological sustainability. Social responsibility. Extended democracy. Demilitarization. Anti-plutocracy. Multi-party democracy. Proportional representation. Community revitalization. Independent politics.
What’s right is right, Greens. Just keep saying it. Someday: “Oh, sure, of course, self-evident.”
