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How do you keep hopeful in this world filled with liberals?
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I think hope's overrated. Hanging your happiness on the future going one way, it's a good way to be disappointed. Fight and work out of love, hate or spite, much healthier. Besides it's not like you get to know in advance if things will turn out good or bad, you just gotta fight the fuckers as best you can. Be ready to take advantage of good conditions and survive bad times, take things as they come and live in the moment. Maybe Reddit takes more out of you than you can put into it, maybe you need a break, maybe it's your true calling and you'll get used to it. I've done my tour of duty on Reddit and I can't handle that shit anymore, fuck it.
Sounds like Reddit's taken the hope out of you. Hope is necessary, hope is a muscle. It's simply the ability to imagine a positive future, and thus figure out how to work toward it. It's necessary for communists. It's not some naive belief that things will work out or an attachment to a specific future. Gramsci was right to call for "pessimism of the mind, optimism of the will." We must see the terrors of the world and imagine the worst, and how to avoid it, but keep fighting because communism will win.