The left can’t bother to do much beyond tell others to disengage and not work too hard.
You’re American, aren’t you?
You do know that in the US, roughly one people out of 10 are literal millionaires, yet your major cities still have huge homeless populations (whom most have jobs by the way, some homeless people working several jobs) and literal shit on the street.
Say what you want about the Nordic model but it’s definitely much further left than whatever bullshit America is doing.
And we’re doing pretty okay. We have no human shit on our streets. Can you say the same?
In North America.
I think your sense of politics on a national level, is massively dirtied by your southern neighbour.
The left isn’t ineffective. Most people definitely know and favour leftist policies if you go ask them. Only some weird right wingers wouldn’t agree that it’s the government’s job to help it’s people.
So because there’s no good talking points on the right, the current propaganda is “don’t even support the left, they won’t achieve shit”. As is sowing apathy. Apathy is the single greatest tool an oppressor could wield. When people don’t believe change is possible, no-one does anything about it. “why bother” they say “it won’t work anyway”.
You can’t know until you try. I know I’m too guilty of this as well. But realising something and being able to not be affected by it are two different things.