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[–]BiologyIsReal 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

In one context or another I'm constantly surrounded by people "leaving the left" over the behavior of other people, while they say their own principles are unchanged. When did political ideology become group identity? If we all said "I advocate an end to capitalism" instead of "I am a leftist" could we have preempted this situation?

I don't think so because what many people mean by "left" is actually liberalism, which is pro-capitalism. So, they will need to word their advocacy differently. Anyway, I think phrases like that are more an expression of disappointment over their political party of choice, which won't dissapear wheter they view their political ideologies as a group identity or not.

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It's true that most leaving-the-leftists are liberals anyhow. They especially need to write out what they believe as I can't figure it out.