"The Left Can Win"

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I have to agree with him. Sometimes political militants are stuck in their own theoretical world. If you say to someone who doesn't know about class theory that he is a worker, he is going to answer "yes and? I work, you work, everyone works, so what?."
The left sometimes fail to talk to the emotions of the people they want to convince, while the right and the far-right are good at it. For example, humans tend to be afraid of unknown and unusual things, and the far-right connects with that.

I don't know. Let's take a few examples. You saw your parents work hard all your life and do their best for you, and now that they are retired they cannot afford medicines or care because some guys in Brussels decided so? Do you think it's fair?
When you were a kid, how did you imagine yourself at 30? You probably saw yourself married, with children and living a happy life... And now you are 30, unemployed and living with your parents because someone in Germany decided that you had to pay the price for something you have not done. And worse, they give you life lessons and call you lazy.
And as a parent, how do you feel? All parents want to work hard to give their children a better life than theirs. You did your best, but you see your children struggling, you already know that it's not going to happen, and all that because some corrupt politicians associated with corrupt bankers to scr*w you? Do you want these people to stay in place, to keep their lavish lifestyle like nothing happened? Why can't the left talk like that?

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Clearly, the European left needs to re-invent itself. I'm not sure if the approach offered by parties like Podemos and SYRIZA is the correct one but it's more inspiring and certainly more "social democratic" in spirit than the tepid promises offered by the traditional parties of the center-left.

I think these parties are doing a good job by pushing new ideas like the universal basic income. It's not for tomorrow and they would probably not be able to implement it if they came to power in one or two years, but other revolutionary ideas like tax income, or paid annual leave were also very polarizing and took a long time to be accepted, and that's a kind of 'bright future' that makes people enthusiastic.