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[–]RedditButt 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

You pretty much summed up the issues we have with the political compass. We are edging closer to totalitarianism on the up/down axis which is where our grievances are, but we are conditioned to argue about the left/right axis. Bringing this up on sites like reddit really pisses people off for some reason, and they never seem to get it, as they always feel they have to continuing to comment "yes, but the left/right is evil because...", as if they didn't read a single word.

[–]Mcheetah[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Yeah. And having met actual millionaires and billionaires in real life (banking/investment people,) I can assure you none of them are on the "left" or "right." It's only stupid working-class, non-rich plebs like us that fall for that tribalist bullshit, like I said in that post from a short while ago. I despise everything that is the woke, and in 2017, thought maybe right-leaning American conservatives really were the lesser of two evils. But no; bring up abortion, not forcing Christianity onto others, or not having blind unwavering allegiance to Israel, and they lose their shit and act as irrational as the left. I learned that shit by 2018 and haven't been proven wrong yet, especially with some of the so-called "conservatives" on this site.

[–]RedditButt 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

The rich still go for that tribalist bullshit, but it's the haves, and have-nots. They just keep the have-nots busy by further dividing them.

[–]Mcheetah[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

True. Yeah, I just meant they aren't on either political side (outside of stupid Hollywood celebrities.)