Kamala Harris told Teamsters president she'd win "with you or without you" before cutting meeting short

this is Mondale erasure, let's dial back to 40 years

there was no choice involved, anyone but the veep would have been too outlandish to contemplate, even this point in collapse.

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 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.

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.