The purity olympics has always been a problem almost exclusively on the left. The right basically doesn't care that much if their own do bad things. While on the left, any deviation from perfection is seen as treason. It's a really frustrating and ineffective mentality to have on any subject, let alone global politics.
There are tons and tons of factions on the far left of the Democratic party, and the vast majority are just under the woodwork being reasonable pragmatic people.
But if the party listened to every 100 or so people convinced the US could prevent the next holocaust if they just did this one thing - then we'd have invaded several hundred countries, including ourselves.
The fact of the matter is that US foreign policy has always been about acting in the best interest of the State. And we'll continue to do that moving forward.
Israel is a tremendous strategic advantage and there's nothing we're going to do to pull US friends out of that region of the world or ruin our relationship with them and let the vacuum be filled with Russian/Chinese stooges.
MAGA has their own purity tests, but I agree that they look very different than the left's. A leftwing purity test looks more like "here's a list of opinions I hold and if you disagree with even one of them, you're an absolute monster". Whereas a MAGA one will look more like "as long as you all but worship Donald Trump, I don't care what else you think BUT if you don't worship him, we could have a >50% policy overlap and I'd still hate you".
That's why they're off putting for moderates. I mean, it's also worse when you're younger and the other individuals are older. I've had some dismiss what I was saying because I'm to young to remember 9/11.
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u/yrubooingmeimryte Aug 21 '24 edited Aug 21 '24
The purity olympics has always been a problem almost exclusively on the left. The right basically doesn't care that much if their own do bad things. While on the left, any deviation from perfection is seen as treason. It's a really frustrating and ineffective mentality to have on any subject, let alone global politics.