Actual anti-capitalist leftists are still pretty small in the US. The most left we have here are social democrats. The mainstream though is left of center liberals who are just pushovers to the far right types and don’t take any real stands.
Too many fake purity tests on the left here. Hell, Justice Democrats ousted its founders over purity tests and it’s now a shadow of the organization it was.
I get the point I just fail to see how it's constructive criticism to argue about who's the true Scottsman without specifics. It sort of reeks of the same purity testing I would think "true" leftists would cringe at. Perhaps a litmus test of "true" leftism has just been revealed.
I don't know if the argument is really fake vs real. I think the argument is "I'm leftist so of COURSE I vote straight ticket blue" vs. Actual Leftists. Just my two cents.
Basically because american politics are so skewed right there's a left and a "left" (neoliberals). Because so much news media in the states talks about neoliberals as the "left" instead of calling them right of center (their actual politics) most Americans don't know where center is.
Easiest tell is they don't hate Reagan.
Another way to tell is they are willing to "compromise" (give up on their stated principals so laws that directly benefit them and their stock options get passed) and never actually push for changes they claim to support.
There is no American left if it cloaks itself with the useless Republican-lite Democrat party. At best the social media grifters that put on the MAGA reach out circus do more to normalize fascist and strip away middle class support
I think from abroad it’s easy to underestimate the scale and ferocity of the propaganda targeted at US citizens, primarily by the rent seeking corporations that have essentially seized control of governance, overtly since the 1980s tho the tension was always there I think. Even if you can…
…convince people that their interests align with left mobilization, before they go to sleep that night they will be bombarded with hard right agitprop from a dozen sources, affirming that their bosses are correct and the left is wrong. In such an environment, wins are measured in inches, not miles.
Yes, I find it laughable that Liberalism is some how equated with the Left. It is Far-Right, and recently started defending Corporatism, even using the term. The Democratic-Republican party has full control.
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Not saying you're wrong just never heard about them.
Another way to tell is they are willing to "compromise" (give up on their stated principals so laws that directly benefit them and their stock options get passed) and never actually push for changes they claim to support.
I like your stuff. But let's be serious here.
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