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[–]wristaction 4 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 3 fun -  (5 children)

There is no daylight between the "radical left" and the institutions of neoliberalism, namely the Democrat party, apart from some cosmetic posturing. Cope harder.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (4 children)

What if I said there is no daylight between whatever conservatism you have and Mitt Romney's?

[–]wristaction 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

You'd have to explain how Mitt Romney ended up marching with BLM (literally) and contrastingly calling for a full-spectrum manhunt and prosecution of the Capitol protesters whom he condemned.

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

Yet Mitt Romney is on the right. The left is at least as complicated as the right. A simple description is that the left is rooted in improving egalitarianism, while the right is is rooted in preserving heritage. But both the left and right become way more complicated than that. Since left and right principles are not opposite of each other, most people have at least a little bit of both left and right. There are literally communists on the right and capitalists on the left. It is a mess.

[–]scrubking[S] 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

You're confusing democrat and republican which are political parties with right and left which are ideologies. Mitt is a republican but he is not right. Most republicans are not on the right. The republican party has been very liberal or left now for decades.

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

Bill Clinton is on the right.