• cynar@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    The right, when issues arise, circle the wagons. The left, when issues arise, form a circular firing squad.

    The let’s fractured nature is both its greatest strength, allowing for innovation and new thinking, and its greatest weakness. We often fail to come together for good, when we all want perfect. We often end up with neither.

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      Youre not lumping liberals in with leftists are you? Because liberals arent leftists. Liberals are status quo aka conservative.

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          I’m honestly not sure of the difference between any of those, and I’m certainly 1 of them if not all 3.

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        Over here, the Lib Dems, while traditionally center/center-right, are actually more left leaning than our left wing party (labour) in many ways.

        Oh, and you are doing a wonderful example of it.

        The left covers all the way from slightly left of center, to extreme left. It gets blurry at the extreme, however. It seems to lurch into authoritarianism, which is a lot more in line with the right wing.

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          Eh, authoritarian isnt necessarily increased the more extreme you go. The foaming at the mouth anarchist who wants to go full john brown on a prosperity preacher isnt necessarily authoritarian, homicidal and fucking crazy? Yes. Authoritarian? No.

          But this is probably due to the fact a lot of those types are usually smart enough to hold their tongues. But tankies will happily go on and on about how theyll kill all the folks who dont fall in line blah blah blah. If I ever have to deal with a tankie IRL id probably flop between laughing and wanting to fight them.