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The US is very liberal, but liberal doesn't mean left. Left to me means workers movements, and there's very little of that in the US.
by impossiblefork 2y ago
The US is very liberal, but liberal doesn't mean left.
Left to me means workers movements, and there's very little of that in the US.
- jpadkins 2y ago[flagged]
- ModernMech 2y agoThe current new guard GOP are currently demonizing and firing federal workers who have protections under the law. Their actions are not pro worker.
- HeatrayEnjoyer 2y agoDuping people, not actually trying to help them.
- whatshisface 2y agoIdentity politics is on the right in Israel. In a general sense I think it might not belong on the same spectrum as redistributive policies or militarism.
- gruez 2y ago>The US is very liberal, but liberal doesn't mean left. At no point was "liberal" mentioned in this comment chain prior to your comment. >Left to me means workers movements, and there's very little of that in the US. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left-wing_politics#Social_progressivism_and_counterculture https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left-wing_politics#Social_prog...
- epistasis 2y agoBiden was the strongest supporter of workers unions we have ever had, and the left in the US reviled Biden. Including the unions, largely. It's time to stop thinking in materialist terms when analyzing US politics, that has completely flown the coop. It's all culture war.
- nradov 2y agoThat's true to an extent, but President Biden also maintained a de facto open borders policy which undercut wages and drove up housing prices for US union members. This was deeply unpopular with the union members that I know. I'm not trying to start a debate on the merits of various immigration policy options, just pointing out that union members perceived this as a lack of support.