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Americans have no context for left and right. They literally are both far right because that’s a political alignment, and one that Donald Trump absolutely fits.
by wayoutthere 5y ago
Americans have no context for left and right. They literally are both far right because that’s a political alignment, and one that Donald Trump absolutely fits. The ones advocating genocide are violent extremists on top of that.
The democrats are a center-right party while the actual left is effectively frozen out of the political system and is currently focused on building alternate power structures for when the US government inevitably collapses. There’s not a lot of electoral participation on the left because when the choice is fascism or diet fascism, there’s not much point to an actual socialist.
- Chris2048 5y agoIf the "actual left" is "currently focused on building alternate power structures for when the US government inevitably collapses" - how would you define far-left? What are they doing?
- wayoutthere 5y agoI would define “far left” as revolutionary communists, of which there are very few and they’re mostly very young people on Twitter. But the few actual revolutionaries I know are doing the same crap as the right wing militias, there are just a lot fewer of them. Your average leftist is simply disillusioned with electoral politics writ large; they’re tired of voting for guys like Obama who promise change but then still spend a trillion dollars turning brown children into skeletons. But there’s absolutely a feeling that we’re running out of time and more drastic solutions are on the horizon. Some join something like DSA which still nominally participates in the electoral system and others build mutual aid networks to circumvent capitalist control.