left/right coordinate system
Posted by samuel77 on 2022-August-27 13:27:18, SaturdayIn reply to Woke left posted by Arota on 2022-August-27 12:36:39, Saturday
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I don't know how you are experiencing it, but "left" and "right" are no longer working as a proper coordinate system. What I see from the left horrifies me - the stuff that happened during the "Black Lives Matter" demonstrations, the cancel culture of the woke people, the trans-gender down your throat thing - it is not left. The Trump followers and the current American Republicans are not really right. They pretty much resemble the "woke left". I consider Bernie Sanders to be left. He knows that a good functioning society needs to include elements that are considered socialistic. The wealth of rich people is based on an unfair advantage, owning production means, owning certain bottlenecks allows them to gather an unfair amount of wealth. Republicans in the past were pretty much left. The poster project of Barack Obama, Medicaid (unsure of the spelling) was a republican project decades ago. It no longer makes sense. |
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