A spicy political take
My boldest take is that America doesn't actually have a "left" in any cohesive politically organized sense and it's weird to complain about "the left" or "leftists" as a single group
What most people call "the left" in media and analysis is either progressive Democrats (who are a minority within their own party) or People on Social Media Who Disagree With Them (hold leftist values/have leftist praxis but don't actually constitute a mass political party or organizing force)
A spicy political take
@ingrid Yeah that's not even spicy that's just correct. And a lot of that weirdo outsider left HATES the progressive wing most of the dems.
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@dymaxion fair! it is spicy for those who still believe that "the left" is a national scale actor somehow, I guess?
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@ingrid@everything.happens.horse fully accurate, a product of several factors in play since the 1950s
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@greycat @ingrid@everything.happens.horse also doesn't help that there's like half a dozen communist parties so isn't a proper entity to rally behind
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@ingrid@everything.happens.horse @breadcat and most of those are ops probably
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@greycat @ingrid@everything.happens.horse and maybe that's just what they want you to think 😳
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@ingrid@everything.happens.horse @breadcat maybe, but i'm already way too paranoid to organize anything more subversive than a d&d game
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A spicy political take
@ingrid I think the democrats are terrified of an actual cohesive left movement because it would expose them as a center right party, economically. individual progressive/left policies are very popular outside of a left/right political context. so democrats co-opt popular left progressive leaders when they can and sabotage the ones that they can't.
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@ingrid the sad difference is that the GOP has embraced their fringe groups