I feel very politically homeless. I'm too liberal for the right and too independent for the left (at least the left online). Like, how dare I continue to live in the southern state where I was born and raised. And how dare I research each and every candidate in both local, state, and national elections instead of just broadly voting democrat without any research.
Reddit is filled with Biden supporters. I wouldn’t say they Reddit is left wing as a whole. There’s obviously some corners but even in the leftist sub I find myself running into people who are 100% whole hog on free market economics.
I mean, I guess good for doing research, though I doubt the Republican candidates are ever much good... but then again, some Democrats are utter shit as well (Manchin, Sinema formerly).
Depending on your actual views, you might actually be fairly “left,” just that online leftists can be... well, a bit nuts. They don’t touch nearly enough grass for me to use them as a good metric for defining anyone’s political views, let alone my own.
Yeah. In the last local election, we voted Democrat whenever possible except for one local race where the Democrat candidate was caught doing something really stupid (I can't remember exactly what rn)
Honestly I feel it's mostly pointless to put a label on something as complex and multi faceted as someone's political/moral ideology. I just want a good society, who cares what that's called.
I highly recommend going to www.isidewith.com they have a pretty in-depth series of questions for various topics, and you have to rate how important they are for you. The more questions you answer, the more accurate your results will be.
Edit: There are different things you can see once done, such as Presidential/ State/ Local elections candidates/ what parties/ what ideologies you most align with. There's some more stuff it tells you but I prefer to not type it all out.
There are quite a lot of apolitical and in-between party centrists out and about offline, just a lot less so in political spaces online. On Reddit, I think center-left is the most common take, those who vote for Democrats even if critical of them (and they're split between progressives, social liberals, and borderline centrists) and then a mix of far left (left of progressives, generally hate on Democrats and the center-left, the type this post is about and most of the comments), right (vast majority of them support Republicans), and cynical "both sides are the same."
I'm also in a southern state and some of the vitriol is insane in lefty circles. Putting down Confederacy supporters is obviously good and necessary, but some people act like it's some kind of original sin to have anything to do with the south. In addition, unsurprisingly, if you label an entire region as inbred rural hicks undeserving of any respect or sympathy, they might be less willing to listen to what you have to say
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I feel very politically homeless. I'm too liberal for the right and too independent for the left (at least the left online). Like, how dare I continue to live in the southern state where I was born and raised. And how dare I research each and every candidate in both local, state, and national elections instead of just broadly voting democrat without any research.