Supporting genocide is right-wing, “reaching across the isle” to republicans is right wing. Failing to defend people from republican policy is right wing. Listening to corporate needs before the general public is right-wing. Failing to enact leftist policy is right-wing. Sacrificing millions of people to a disease because you’re scared people will like welfare is right-wing. Hating communist countries and sanctioning them is right-wing. Filling your party with landlords is right-wing. Being buddies with war criminals like Bush JR just because he doesn’t like Trump is right-wing. And defending literal Nazis? Yeah, I shouldn’t have to tell you that’s right-wing.
If you support the Democrats you are not a leftist, you are not progressive, you are Trump with a blue coat of paint.
Supporting genocide is right-wing, “reaching across the isle” to republicans is right wing. Failing to defend people from republican policy is right wing. Listening to corporate needs before the general public is right-wing. Failing to enact leftist policy is right-wing. Sacrificing millions of people to a disease because you’re scared people will like welfare is right-wing. Hating communist countries and sanctioning them is right-wing. Filling your party with landlords is right-wing. Being buddies with war criminals like Bush JR just because he doesn’t like Trump is right-wing. And defending literal Nazis? Yeah, I shouldn’t have to tell you that’s right-wing.
If you support the Democrats you are not a leftist, you are not progressive, you are Trump with a blue coat of paint.
You are 100% correct, the corporate party that owns and operates the U.S. only has two right wings.
Correct. The Democratic Party is fascist. I am really trying to get people in my life to understand that they should give the Democratic Party as much support, respect, and cover as they would give the Nazi Party (which is NONE, because fuck genocide).
Edit: It shouldn’t be this hard to get people to understand, but they’re just racist fucks who think brown people are untermensch so it’s harder than it should be
Yes but have you considered that orange man bad and blah blah blah
I think the phrase is backwards
If you support the Democrats you are not a leftist, you are not progressive, you are Trump with a blue coat of paint.
rather:
If you’re leftist/progressive, why are you supporting these policies, or supporting the politicians who support these policies? Where do you stand on immigrant rights? Did you dislike when trump did x y z? Obama created those border cages first, and was known as “deporter-in-chief” among immigrant rights groups and socialists for being so draconian. Then, with Kamala as “Border-czar,” Biden deregulated the border camps, allowed them to be privatized, and issued an executive order to totally shut the border which when Trump tried to do it it was so extreme the courts blocked him on multiple separate levels.
Then you’re getting positive engagement, actually having them tell you what they believe and having conversations about it, and challenging the politicians to pull the worker away from hollow faith in jackals.
Rather than just accusing people of things, calling them names, and acting in a gatekeeping way pushing them further from ever accepting leftist positions because you’re actively telling them that they don’t and aren’t leftists and basically insulting them and condescending to them for being misled by the agents of empire who have total media and social media narrative supremacy. which might make you feel good but does nothing to convince anyone and does nothing to grow socialism.
That’s going to be hard to do. Americans are programmed to believe they Democrats represent the left—if they’re even aware of what leftism is—and being then told they they’re actually right-wing will lead them to think you’re crazy.
“You’re so far-left that you think the Democrats are right-wing!”
At least that’s how it is with younger liberals who are a little more tuned in to politics. The average unengaged person is more receptive if the message is packaged differently.
Ah but then you get to pull the numbers card. “Actually it’s the democrats who are so right wing they think even centrists are on the left. Most of the world is to the left of them.” And then they either have to accept that or start arguing that most of the people in the world don’t matter, which happens but it’s easy to pretend to be shocked and appalled when it does*
*pretend to be shocked, that is. I’m always appalled but I’m rarely shocked.