The amount of times I've been talking to some friends and I'll make a prediction or make an observation on what's going to happen in a political situation (or what to focus on), get disagreed with and called a tankie or pessimist or whatever, and then I'm correct 3 months later is driving me mad. Of course, they then start saying they need to protest against that or whatever. You would think at some point if someone is consistantly correct about stuff (that isn't hard to be correct on, I'm just like, the only theory reader and person who knows any real history in a group of americans) that you'd start to give them a little credit and maybe value their opinion a little higher, maybe even try to understand what's different between you and them????
Example: telling them ukraine has a nazi problem???? Why was this difficult.
It might just be me or something (likely) but it seems like it's a trend across the states.
I think something that goes under discussed in these types of conversations is that you will never be able to convince somebody of something their material conditions do not already tell them is correct. So we can probably theorize why people in the united states may more proportionally never really come in to contact w the material reality that makes them wrong, but simultaneously there's not a lot a lot that can be done about that without a part of their material conditions or understanding of those conditions changing.