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[–]Q-Continuum-kin 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

The thing about that nonsensical mix of voters who go for democrats is they are hanging on by a thread and the republicans could snap like half of those people up in an instant if any of them realized that leftist conservatives can exist. Hell, I'm way on the left and I would have voted for Ron Paul if he made it through to the general in 08 or whatever year that was explicitly because he was honest and antiwar. Trump scrambled all the neocons to go running to work with democrats and now the entire democratic party is filled with warmongers

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

yeah, there's actually a long isolationist tradition among US conservatives (since like the 1770s Tories), and most self-identified economic progressives (not Democrats) snipe at "stupidpol" because it's too easy to just yell "racist! and, no, whitefolk and J00z, I am NOT obligated to explain further"

I always compare US politics to a zoo where every species is labeled either "sea anemone" or "marmoset" or something