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We have a deeply fundamental problem broadly with society that people want to be outraged and angry, so they will latch onto anything, this is why the left can't organize and why the most successful political party are the party of orcs and violence and animosity and outrage, even though they have fewer people.
The left isn't much different honestly, they just choose to turn into raging asshats when someone breaks their unspoken rules and boundaries that make them feel "civil" and feel like the "good smart guys." The right doesn't have qualms about being the bad guy because they're fucking stupid and we're gingerly tip-toeing around them careful we're going to hurt someone's feelings, meanwhile on our side we can't even form a single broad movement because too many leftists get twisted when someone in their own ranks says a word that could spark the outrage of someone, somewhere, at some point.
I don't feel like I have a team at all. I want the same things that the left states its arguing for and fighting for, but it doesn't. It doesn't fight, it doesn't accept people, it doesn't actually want change, it uses the same tactics of shaming and finger-wagging everyone, everywhere for saying naughty things, then wondering why they're not getting more people or making progress.
edit: your downvoting is as impotent and pointless as the fights the left takes on. If you think an argument against the left's tactics is an implicit endorsement of the right, congratulations, you belong with the right, you are a reactionary and dumber than shit.
I think it helps to get out of online spaces and interact in person with people. Text is always far easier to misinterpret or to misword, you're more likely to find allies face to face.
I agree that people need to be more accepting and slower to judge. There are a lot of anti-Trump/MAGA people out there who lack the lexicon to get across that they're on-side and whom might make a mistake here and there - no need to flay them publically and turn them away.