- Dołączono
- 25 Lip 2020
This is going to be relatively long as I just found this thread and it is hard to cram all of my opinions into one post.
I am an American, so I do not know how things are in other countries, but I consider myself a progressive leftist. While the SJWs and "wokeness" have left a bad taste in many people's mouths, in terms of how people perceive the "left" in my country, I think that the biggest threat to individual freedom and liberty is wealth inequality and how much power private corporations have in regards to control over the political system as well as the rise of corporate censorship.
As many have pointed out, when people refer to the political left, that can mean being socially liberal but economically conservative, or socially conservative but economically liberal or both. There is a lot of confusion about what being on the political left actually means, especially in my country. This is because while the Republican party is generally conservative in both the social and economic sense, the Democratic party is largely center-right when it comes to economic issues and foreign policy and masquerades as a left-leaning party by cloaking itself in woke language and intent while doing little to nothing to help people who are poor and reducing the income gap. They also get just as much money for their electoral campaigns as the Republicans do, albeit from different industries. The modern Democratic party is not the party of FDR anymore as it has been taken over by Third Way Democrats since the late-1980's and has since been "liberal" in the neoliberal sense. Overall, while I think the political left has largely won and has dominated American social and cultural narratives since the 1960's, the political right has largely won when it comes to things like economic issues, foreign policy, law enforcement, labor issues, etc.
Regardless of which of the two parties are in charge, we have let corporations basically erode labor rights, wasted huge amounts of money and lives on pointless military adventures, ignored the fourth amendment because of warrantless surveillance from both public and private institutions, increased income inequality, gave massive tax breaks to the wealthy and allowed corporate tax havens overseas, let healthcare to be legalized corporate fraud, and did nothing while housing costs skyrocketed. I consider myself a leftist because I disagree with all of the above, and while I hate how SJWs and the woke have jumped on the censorship bandwagon, I am all for civil rights and free speech. However, unlike SJWs, I do not think that anybody should be bullied, harassed, or canceled for their personal opinions no matter how offensive I might find them to be as long as nobody is directly threatened with physical harm or violence.
Finally, here are some older videos that explain the dichotomy between SJWs and true leftists. It is somewhat confusing because while "left" and "liberal" are used interchangeably by many people in my country, they have come to mean different things for reasons I talked about.
Part 1:
Part 2:
P.S. I also despise the massive hateboner that the political left and the modern environmentalist movement in general seems to have for nuclear energy when that is probably one of the few practical, clean, and safe options we have for electricity generation.
I am an American, so I do not know how things are in other countries, but I consider myself a progressive leftist. While the SJWs and "wokeness" have left a bad taste in many people's mouths, in terms of how people perceive the "left" in my country, I think that the biggest threat to individual freedom and liberty is wealth inequality and how much power private corporations have in regards to control over the political system as well as the rise of corporate censorship.
As many have pointed out, when people refer to the political left, that can mean being socially liberal but economically conservative, or socially conservative but economically liberal or both. There is a lot of confusion about what being on the political left actually means, especially in my country. This is because while the Republican party is generally conservative in both the social and economic sense, the Democratic party is largely center-right when it comes to economic issues and foreign policy and masquerades as a left-leaning party by cloaking itself in woke language and intent while doing little to nothing to help people who are poor and reducing the income gap. They also get just as much money for their electoral campaigns as the Republicans do, albeit from different industries. The modern Democratic party is not the party of FDR anymore as it has been taken over by Third Way Democrats since the late-1980's and has since been "liberal" in the neoliberal sense. Overall, while I think the political left has largely won and has dominated American social and cultural narratives since the 1960's, the political right has largely won when it comes to things like economic issues, foreign policy, law enforcement, labor issues, etc.
Regardless of which of the two parties are in charge, we have let corporations basically erode labor rights, wasted huge amounts of money and lives on pointless military adventures, ignored the fourth amendment because of warrantless surveillance from both public and private institutions, increased income inequality, gave massive tax breaks to the wealthy and allowed corporate tax havens overseas, let healthcare to be legalized corporate fraud, and did nothing while housing costs skyrocketed. I consider myself a leftist because I disagree with all of the above, and while I hate how SJWs and the woke have jumped on the censorship bandwagon, I am all for civil rights and free speech. However, unlike SJWs, I do not think that anybody should be bullied, harassed, or canceled for their personal opinions no matter how offensive I might find them to be as long as nobody is directly threatened with physical harm or violence.
Finally, here are some older videos that explain the dichotomy between SJWs and true leftists. It is somewhat confusing because while "left" and "liberal" are used interchangeably by many people in my country, they have come to mean different things for reasons I talked about.
Part 1:
Part 2:
P.S. I also despise the massive hateboner that the political left and the modern environmentalist movement in general seems to have for nuclear energy when that is probably one of the few practical, clean, and safe options we have for electricity generation.
