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[–]ech[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

I'm leftwing on most issues like economics but I guess I'm right wing on things like social justice.

Are you a fan of Aimee Terese, Stupidpol, et al? I follow them and they're pretty good

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Haven't heard of those, they have similar views?

[–]ech[S] 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

They are leftist on economics, but anti-SJW on cultural issues.

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I feel like that is the majority of americans. The silent majority. Maybe not boomers but they are slowly dying out. There are 71 million of them but that's not quite a majority. Obama had won his elections despite not getting the most white men votes. First time in history. Now then since then Democrats have gone right wing on economics and far left on social justice issues . . . we get Trump and repubs in charge of senate.

[–]ech[S] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Yeah, a lot of polling backs this up -- normie Americans are left on economics, unwoke on social issues. But this constituency has no formal voice.

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this started ramping up after occupy wall st threatened the rich's riches. That was started in response to Obama's huge sellout on all issues and massive campaign betrayals, unprecedented in modern politics. That was true woke. Now bankers fund the sjw protests. Trump is constantly criticized for his based twitter comments while ignoring his actual policies such as tax cuts for the rich. Occupy was the formal voice, snuffed out in the night. More recently some BLM protestors have protested bankers, marched thru gated communities and criticized Israel. Now you see the media focusing back on corona as they don't want to get the controlled movement to get out of hand.