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8d ago
I mean, there are lots of people who liked the fictitious version of the left that was just about freedom of expression and abortion and "women and men should both be allowed to have bank accounts" and "cops randomly beating up anyone is bad actually" and gay rights and "reality-based community" and the kind of ideas you'd find in old popular fiction books. It just turned out never to have existed outside of those nice-sounding stories.
Is that a "real left" or isn't it? And what exactly does that mean?
what does this say about politics now
That "lolbertarian" was a really good insult?
Seriously, though: if simple can vote, simple will govern. Most people don't give a shit about coherent ideology or complex policy. Let's call it "too autistic."
will we reverse polarize ourselves into a small government balanced budget "socialist" president at some point?
If you want a real policy that isn't "we support whatever those losers hate now" you'll have to look at a smaller number of people.
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28d ago
I suspect a lot of the autistic ones are people like Ana Valens who convinced themselves they had infinite lesbian porn pass (hint: feminism is not deceived by your clever ruse).
They're like "constitution says cops can't give me a speeding ticket" guys but for social censure, so they end up in weird/suicidal places politically.
I think a bigger problem was the decision of a lot of major employers to endorse these idiots by effectively putting them in charge of hiring/firing choices for a decade plus.
People take "we can kill you any time we want" seriously, and that's what the Times blowing up prominent reporters means for a lot of the little people out in real life who need work to eat.
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