I disagree entirely with this. They DO have a story. It's a very clear and concise one. It's one anyone can understand and I think pretty much everyone does.

It just turns out the story of "do nothing and hope that somehow improves things" isn't a very compelling one

[–] PorkrollPosadist@hexbear.net 34 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

They've always had a story. It's the story they've been telling us since we were kids. It's meritocracy. That if you work hard and get good grades, you can do anything. That toiling is for suckers and you don't need to worry about it as long as you're clever and entrepreneurial. It has no basis in reality, but liberalism is an idealist philosophy. The only reason meritocracy fails is that not enough people take meritocracy seriously. Any counterexample (like systemic nepotism and graft, for instance) only proves that people aren't doing meritocracy correctly.

We have the correct ideas in our heads, and the only thing preventing them from manifesting are all of the people out there who have the wrong ideas in their heads. It is our burden to remind them that democracy is good and corruption is bad. And we have to be incredibly annoying and never stop talking about it at a Blue's Clues level of sophistication.