So I used to be a left leaning democrat with a few more right values, generslly about the second ammendment and free speech. I remember the concerns used to seem like it was about helping people worldwide and making sure people got help they needed. I always saw welfare as free gibs bullshit, but that was due to where I grew up and most everyone held that belief. I remember how two of my good friends who were gay republicans were excited for gay marriage and all that, and celebrated when it happened. Then it seems like all of the crazy faggots came out of the woodwork, I was suddenly a ultra far right ultra nazi for not wanting to burn the 1st and 2nd ammendments to the ground, and we went from helping immigrants move here to just getting rid of borders and beating every evil white man in sight for the crime of being white. When all of that shit started I slowly became more and more conservative in my views as as saw old talking points being used as a shield for new crazed bullshit. What the fuck happened that destroyed my party and pushed me to the right? Further what the fuck is up with all of this tv and book references as a political argument shit?
What happened to the Democrats?
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Identity politics destroyed their party
>a few right values... freedom of speech
That’s still a liberal value; the Democrats have just abandoned it. In a lot of ways, Republicans are the real liberals now.
The fact of the matter is that the parties are switching sides again (just like in the ‘60s). The dems are the authoritarians now
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There is a difference between a liberal and a leftist. Truth is liberals have more in common with conservatives than not, they are both libertarian leaning constitutionalists, albeit dancing around the edges on economics and wedge issues. The problem is the two parties no longer represent either group authentically.
This. Republicans now are what democrats used to be when I was a kid
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If you’re asking “how did this happen?” It’s quite simple— we turned a blind eye to some of the authoritarian policies of Obama (including slipping the legalization of the use of propaganda by political parties inside the US into a defense spending authorization bill in late 2013, which was a turning point) and then let opposing Trump become more important than maintaining liberal values. Simultaneously, equal rights started to morph more into a stance where some people needed to be more equal than others rather than having equal rights because of intersectional thought.
The Democratic Party has become complete cancer.
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Communism always ends in camps if not stopped by force.
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Wall of text. Didn't read.
Break up your shit next time.
In other words, the country is fucked either way.
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>left vs right
divide and conquer user, the oldest trick in the book
we have a common enemy, we have all been robbed blind
>1st and 2nd are right-wing issues
Sounds about right to be quite honest desu senpai family
>There is a difference between a liberal and a leftist. Truth is liberals have more in common with conservatives than not
It didn’t use to be that way— when Bush and neocons dictated the Republican platform, the Democrats used to take liberal, constitutional positions and didn’t take very many “leftist” positions at all. Things changed for the worst during Obama’s second term— personally, 2013-2014 was the turning point for me.
Unironically this. I'd probably be called left leaning 20 years ago because I support things like keeping social security public, private sector unions, and a public option for health care. Now many people calling themselves left wing just have their heads up their asses while babbling in jargon about "microagressions," "trigger warnings," and memorization of innumerable pronouns (as if simply correcting someone when needed wasn't enough), overwriting the importance of due process in the name of public outrage, and subjecting free expression to the constraints of whim and opinion. It's a circus.
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>babbling in jargon about "microagressions," "trigger warnings," and memorization of innumerable pronouns
I'm telling you... the legalization of propaganda inside the US in 2013 did horrible things to our country, polarized politics, and is killing the Democratic Party.
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A liberals nature is to defend the defenseless, they want to be good... or at least started out wanting to do good. The problem is that we have WAY too many immigrants from 3rd world countries... Immigrants who come over here and use our welfare services, our public services, have anchor babies in our hospitals using my money that I worked my ass off for... They don't want to assimilate or become proud Americans, they want to leach, send money back home, and change this country to be just like the shithole they left.
The left only views immigrants through the prism of TV and movies who always show them as fun, smart, happy people who work hard and are somehow victimized by ungrateful white oppressors who prey on the immigrants somehow. They have no REAL experience with immigrants or minorities outside of being served by them in one way or another. So if you believed the Hollywood propaganda you would probably be fighting along side them.
>You would feel justified to give up your principles to defeat the mean white republicans
We have too many immigrants, be they legal/illegal white/black/brown, not enough commonality and too many grievances by 1st generation.
Too much conflicting data, too many "victims" to save. Plus women not getting married and making babies fucks them up because we are biologically programmed to family life. and the Jews... fuck them too