points by cowlevel 4 days ago | 0 comments
I have heard of precisely three people in American politics who are left at all, much less far left. Those are AOC, Bernie Sanders, and Zohran Mamdani. The left is certainly not dominating any primaries.
[–] verdverm 4 days ago
[–] cycomanic 4 days ago
So where are the quotes of hard left politicians (and not some fringe politician) saying they want to dominate everything. Also how is that even part of a left/right definition. In fact in my experience the ones who most talk about eliminating others in politics are the self declared moderates, who at every opportunity talk about how we need to eliminate the extremes from politics.
[–] verdverm 3 days ago
the culture war between the groups has ample examplar
lots of top down rules for everyone, rather than the "trickle up" governance experiments we need to runin order to (1) figure out what works in practice (2) convince others they should try it to
[–] cycomanic 3 days ago
So the answer is no quotes.
[–] alex-hall 4 days ago
guy whose blog is capstoned with "vive la résistance" bragging about spending his free time moderating the left
[–] verdverm 4 days ago
man, the wannabe trolls are out today
quality first comment buddy, leave that stuff on Musk and Zuck Social please
[–] cowlevel 4 days ago
By that metric Donald Trump is far left, so I don't think it's a good metric.
[–] verdverm 3 days ago
it's a metric for the extremes, both far left and hard right
the rest of us want debates and compromise
[–] cowlevel 2 days ago
Compromise like
Person A: let's torture immigrants
Person B: let's not
Person C: whoa whoa hold on. Isn't there space in the middle that will please everyone? Let's only torture half the immigrants
There's a reason "enlightened centrist" is such a maligned stereotype. As stupid as person A is in the mock exchange above, person C is clearly even stupider.
The rule of thumb I use is, do they say things like "win at all costs" or talk about how they want to dominate others, forcing their views on all Americans.