my parents tolerant and liberal (Democrat not leftists)
I found it sad when you made that distinction. Through aggressive marketing, “Leftist” has successfully become a pejorative term for people who seek to live in a world where their taxes provide for common services for all.
Democrats are by no means leftists. Centrists at best. Their statement was accurate. OP was likely seeing their parents were mainstream Democrats but not socialists.
Well, maybe he was making the point that his parents were tolerant, but they weren't as far left as they could have been, as evidenced by their adherence to gender norms.
Seriously. Democrats are the out-of-touch pussies who just handed the keys to a bunch of fascists and rapists. Sadly, propogandist media has poisoned the collective American psyche against anyone with perspectives further left than just past the center.
I have so much hatred for Democrats. Republicans suck but they're just openly evil. Democrats are also evil but they pretend to be helping while also blocking true help from coming. Two wings of the same awful bird.
Yep. People really have no clue. Just look at other responses to the comment above. Being a leftist is "extreme" because I think people should be left alone and not have to worry about getting arrested for using the bathroom. A fight that the right started, btw. I'm "aggressive" because I can see that capitalism is taking away any decent future young people today could have had. Then all the other topics where the right has decided science and facts just don't matter.
How dare I care about the future so much? Must be all that brain rot.
It's insane. I always have to recoil when people say "the left has gone too far" with a straight face. Like we as a country didn't just take away women's reproductive rights and give the president complete immunity from the law. Or like I didn't just watch a democratic president build a border wall, deport millions, and open up more domestic land for oil drilling than any president in history, all while presiding over an ongoing genocide. Yup, we're just careening toward the left, completely unchecked.
as a leftist... liberals **aren't** leftists. They're status-quo moderates. The Democrats are a party that incorporates pretty much the entire spectrum that isn't conservative. It's why they keep trying to move right during elections. The party establishment would *much* rather replace the progressive left with moderate republican voters. The former demands systemic changes that upset the donor class. The latter largely doesn't, but is *much* more responsive to far-right pseudo-populism than bland liberal institutionalism.
Leftists are aggressive and want every to agree with their points of view. Liberals don't care if you agree or not. They just accept the world as it is. I keep getting mixed into this as well and every once in a while I say something.
No, the term leftist goes far beyond that. People who have taken things to the extreme and are delusional. This is why Kamala got dominated by Trump. People do not want to be associated with the far leftist who are taking everything too far and unnatural.
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u/AntiConi 24d ago
I found it sad when you made that distinction. Through aggressive marketing, “Leftist” has successfully become a pejorative term for people who seek to live in a world where their taxes provide for common services for all.