>It feels like the idealism of some on the left is failing to understand the prisoner's dilemma, and so they just keep losing. The "idealism" of the left is in

>It feels like the idealism of some on the left is failing to understand the prisoner's dilemma, and so they just keep losing. The "idealism" of the left is increasingly just bigotry. There is a small set of people and problems they like and a large set they dislike or are simply disinterested in. This becomes indistinguishable from fascists who seek racial superiority for a particular group. It's not there yet but it's certainly going in a direction. The left hates the south, hates poor white people, hates rural people, hates men. The left is comfortable with open expression of this hatred. The left has a severe sense of "we know better than you" superiority and confusion as to why folks "vote against their own self interest". The left forgot that they made most of their societal progress by slowly normalizing things instead of loudly shoving changes in people's faces. The left wants to fight a culture war and when they win something they look for more things to be angry about accelerating divisiveness instead of slowing it down. The left doesn't want everyone to just be people, they've grown increasingly obsessed with categorizing people and then demanding performative celebration of new categories, you can't just be a person you've got to have a collection of adjectives. The active left are mostly bored people who want to fight for other people's problems and feel inadequate letting those people do it for themselves. The bigotry and divisiveness of both active sides of the political spectrum are becoming indistinguishable, the silent majority is leaderless. There is no one standing up rejecting both extremes arguing for sanity, rationality, and fairness. Liberté, égalité, fraternité should be the goals we're fighting for In the Weimar Republic there was the Iron Front with this flag with three arrows representing opposition to monarchy, fascism, and communism and what we need is some modern version of this opposed to the divisiveness, authoritarianism, and rejection of reason common across the political spectrum of America. We need the center to unite and reject both poles and return to a sense of individual thought and decision-making in our leaders instead of one thought per party.