americans stop using liberal as a synonym for leftist challenge
I have a feeling that stuff like this is made by conservatives to get far-leftists to embrace conservative opinions
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Conservative opinions like checks notes that poverty should be abolished, the oligarchs should be expropriated and the cishet patriarchy should be dismantled.
Yeah if anything the one bad consequence of left crit of democrats is that it could make apolitical people more vulnerable to criticism of democrats from a far right, populist, perspective. But as long as we make sure to be loud and clear about the fact that both parties are leading to losses for the working class and gains for the ruling class, and fascists will do nothing to ameliorate that except pay lip service to middle class white people, there’s no reason why we’d make anyone embrace conservative opinions. That comment was incoherent garbage.
Edit: to clarify what I mean by the first sentence, the way most apolitical people will start to form their opinions will be to just pick a side from one of the two acceptable ideologies, because that’s the way you consume politics in America. If we were to only focus on criticizing Democrats and never Republicans, (which to be clear I don’t believe to be the case, I see no shortage of criticism to either party) as material conditions worsen and more people start to pick a side they’ll be more likely to swing toward fascism, unless socialism somehow becomes a mainstream and acceptable ideology.
Neoliberals have a near religious devotion to the concepts of incremental innovation and some kind of technological utopia that’s just around the corner, we just need to have faith it will arrive when the moment’s right. Critique of this concept means you somehow prevent it from happening
woke effortpost has a Contrapoints gif to express their bloodless PMC dismay
oh look, all the data is derived from what the parties themselves say instead of what they actually do. 🤔
edit: and of course they cherry picked data. Play with it yourself https://visuals.manifesto-project.wzb.eu/mpdb-shiny/cmp_dashboard/
:kermit-pain: I hate these people, mamma fucking mia. That whole fucking post is debunked if you just compare for one minute what these countries are like and what the parties are actually doing.
They’re on a negative kick because he ended an imperial occupation, and pissing off the French has added more fuel to it.
Deleted. Did the thread get archived?
works on my machine :)
Try this maybe? https://www.reddit.com/r/Documentaries/comments/pqfq8o/democrats_are_not_left_wing_2021_how_the_united/
Came back to say that comment section is peak :reddit-logo:
Lol holy shit
Are they? The most up voted comments are all pretty agreeable with the documentary
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