That’s the hard part. People with advanced degrees or deep in the arts are used to regular praise. Don’t respond well when you don’t get excited for the things they say. One thing is to focus criticism onto how the upper social classes of leftist movements speaks they get used to taking non-academic criticism again from political colleagues.

Right now it’s the lower class that gets scolded for language and behavior that doesn’t fit with upper class language. The opposite should be it. The upper class either needs to step aside, adapt their speech like they’ve demanded everyone else for decades, or get ignored or scolded. The getting ignored part is already happening. The scolding seems to be increasing to me as the lessening of respect that academia seems to get now (not that academia should be disrespected but that the default to following academics seems to be in decline)

I’ve gotten used to calling out peers for being out of touch and for getting in fights with their imagination rather than just asking people at like a town hall in the poorer parts of town or a food bank what their concerns are or cashiers. It’s great. 10 years ago they were certain they were doing things well. Now today I’m finally seeing my academia friends thinking saying BIPOC and Latinx (two terms lifted from academic papers) isn’t resonating with minority communities or most white people outside of small university groups. The majority outside of universities have way more basic needs concerns compared to university students.

Telling people to go to therapy and travel more and go to music festivals isn’t working. Yoga, meditation, etc are not solutions that display urgency. Wellness rhetoric is weak. People that suggest these need to be shoo’ed away. The first time I heard bipoc said was at a fundraising event. I have never heard it said outside of political events that has significant speakers in attendance like local politicians, university professors, leaders of major nonprofits. I never hear it said out in the minority majority neighborhood I live in. Pressure the leftist upper class to speak the language of the common person by pulling them down into the lower class communities or push them aside by ignoring them and encouraging others to do so as well. If they want a career in politics either directly in government or in community organization groups, they better learn the culture and speech of the community

It’d be good if after speaking, like at those 50501 marches, canvassing the crowd for response. Do you remember anything people on the stage said? What are your pressing concerns locally? Did the speakers today address those? After today do you know where you can continue involvement in days between marches? Do you know when local town halls with local politicians occur and where? Are you active in any boycotts? Are you a part of a group in these boycotts? Did anything today bring you into membership of a grassroots political organization that you weren’t before?

If we aren’t being affective, we need to know as soon as possible.

Every bit of communication we do is an opportunity to also hear whether we’re even communicating well rather than relying on if the crowd clapped or cheered. The crowd almost always does once some starts to do so. We should constantly be optimizing our speech for how people respond in understanding and action

Also telling the higher class leftist who make fun of conservatives for being poorer on average to stop being a dick. Plenty of poor people are leftist. Or for being born in a non-destination state. Nothing wrong being born in South Dakota or wanting to live in South Dakota. Same idea for other countries. Plenty of conservatives are conservative because that’s what they were born into and are surrounded by. Either provide an avenue to be a leftist or an ally in benefit, not fully in ideology, or shut up and keep the elitism to themselves.

Sure it offends upper class leftists to be called out of touch and be ignored. Doesn’t matter, they’re a very small portion of the movement that by and large just vote and socialize among other champagne socialist. Their contribution is small. Better to alienate the well off upper class leftist than alienate the poorer leftists and middle swing voters that barely follow politics for whatever reason. There’s way more that aren’t upper class leftists

Local politics over national. Local town halls with city council members have plenty of unpolished but passionate speakers that are desperate in their situation. These are the people that should be getting positive reinforcement and encouragement. Someone that gets potholes filled because of their pestering city council members has displayed more political willpower and ingenuity than someone who got a bunch of college people to hold a moment of silence for all the people who’s voices that aren’t being heard

Should have accomplishable goals short dated and long. Short ones can be simple community work like cleaning up litter and volunteering at local community centers. Organizing fundraisers for random children activities that kids do. Associating regularly with counseling centers. Food drives. Clothing drives that deliver to people directly rather than pass on to the mostly faceless very large established non-profits. People should see the results of their efforts.

Like a friend of mine has been working as a councilor for ~18-20 year olds in a poor neighborhood. Often broken and/or impoverished homes. Got a friend that coaches sports. Others that work I restaurants and enjoy showing people how to break down whole chickens, fish, beef, etc which people love to learn especially the budget conscious. I don’t get why there’s such a strong separation between social workers and political organizations. Political organizations should be doing community volunteer type work on the regular to constantly be in touch with community member and potentially find people that would be great in helping plan, organize, and communicate with the public and that should be a part of their whole mission. On their website. In their brochure. In their marketing. Fundraising and paying for lobbyist is not a very engaging organization to keep people active

Don’t discourage anger from poorer people. In the art/politics/academia world, everyone is too sedated and decorum too required. That sort of attitude does not make poorer people feel like there’s urgency for them.

Shits hard but got to keep trying. Right now my attempts are focused on supporting local needs and trying to get the university/art people to stop trying to culture police people who aren’t even doing anything bad really and stop making people feel like they’re greedy for being more concerned about their finances rather than whatever the current social cause academia is hot these days

My thoughts are based around about 25 years of being the guy that grew up in an abusive poor household but managed to make it to college and into middle to upper-middle class social and political groups and being repeatedly frustrated with how much of a class divide there is on the left and how the upper portion dominates over the lower and it being really ineffective including the Obama years. We’ve been losing more and more of the non-college educated voter for decades and keep acting like the solution is to get more and more people a college degree. Now less people want to go to college and 2024 college students didn’t vote as lopsided left like they did in the past. Hoping demographics will save us is too passive