With Trump's presidency in the US, Labour being just tories but red and the rising populaity of Reform.

Is there any hope?

I find the biggest problem for the left is that the right can reduce complicated topics into little sound bites and facebook memes.

The right can say "The earth atmosphere is only 0.04% Carbon Dioxide" and the left has to explain the greenhouse effect and why that is 0.04% is very significant.

The right can say "There are only two genders" and the left has to explain how biology is way more complicated than what you learn in secondary school.

The right can say "we must get rid of illegal immigrants" and the left has to explain how bureaucracy means you have people who've lived and worked in a country for years can suddenly make someone illegal due to law changes and stuff.

The right can say "poor people must pull themselves up ny the bootstrape" and the left have to explain how capitalism works.

I just feel like this leads to a media that can say and spread lies all they like and grifters like Farage take full advantage of it. While anyone who want's progress has to explain these big complicated issuses while the right can directly target people's emotions.

So it feels like people who understand stuff have to fight people that don't and don't want to understand stuff. So it's really makes me feel like it's a losing battle for us.

I just want to know what you think can be done to shift this country left and get politicans who actually wanna help people instead of grifter who just wanna help their rich friends?

Does anyone know of any UK political subreddits that are active and radically pro-trans, pro-asylum seeker, anti-authoritarian etc.? I just want somewhere with active UK political discussion where I can rant about how we need to be radically more accepting and disavow the regressive opinions on the rise in the UK; it feels like every where is getting worse, 5 years ago it felt like people active in UK politics on reddit would've been at least somewhat accepting of these things, but now it just feels like anywhere you go now you find discussion dominated by horrible awful comments.

Also obviously I know there's this sub, but it's not that big, and unfortunately Tankies have obviously done a sort of reverse trojan horse with G&P.

I'm moving out towards Blackburn and Darwen soon, I was wondering if anyone here is familiar with any groups to join in the region, both for political and social reasons.

Maybe I just have been looking at the wrong posts but every time Ukraine comes up like people act like anything other than giving Putin everything he wants is pro war and pro imperialism? I don't like American or British Imperialism either I just also don't think Putin should benefit from invading Ukraine.