I don't care if it's a "moderate", a "rational" or whatever prefixes do you have for these leftists who says they don't support the Marxist shenanigans in academia or the occurring Cultural Revolution happening all over the West over the past decade, they are lying. And you believing their lies that they're against it while not doing anything to oppose it only enables these primordial evil that's going on in the world today.
In short: "Don't believe their lies." Lying is as innate to them as they live.
Part of the issue is that left-wing rhetoric doesn't have much in the way of counters to communist ideology. If you're on the left, you're implicitly accepting that communism is the way to go, somehow and some time. Communists end up just having to debate that now is the time for a bunch of premises that the rhetoric is already set up for - it's why lefties in general fold like house of cards in the face of communist proselytism.
Oh, I must have missed that part when being a liberal meant we just automatically got on the train car and waited patiently to be starved to death in a gulag. This open mind of mine, tends to let things like this slip out.
Left-wing ideals completely oppose communism. We cherish the freedom of the individual, of experiencing new things, of just living and letting live. Liberalism is a willingness to be open to debate, not automatic acceptance. Preaches tolerance, not embracing an idea simply because it is different.
Communism is not about any of these things. It is the complete destruction of the system and the removal of all freedoms under the will of the collective authoritarianism. No changes, nothing new, only enforcement. There is no tolerance of anything under communism, only obedience. Obedience is a conservative principle.
Tolerating Communists is a catastrophic blunder. You don't tolerate a wound, you cauterize it.
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You mean NONE of the major public platforms are liberal because they blanket ban people for using specific naughty words?
You are just using the retarded "not true liberalism" argument just like commies use the "not true communism".
The left really loves the "no true Scotsman" when it's going to benefit them.
They also love to cry Strawman when you paint a negative depiction of them, but then paint this Utopian Strawman of themselves on the other side of their mouths.
Liberal and left-wing are distinct. If you support left-wing politics, you're already at the train station, likely soon to board that train.
The reality is liberal and left-wing are much abused terms. A sizeable portion of the Democrat constituency would be better described as progressives, or even radical progressives based on the policy they vote for. You can't unironically support equality of outcome, critical race theory and substantial government overreach while calling yourself a liberal.
Unfortunately, liberalism seems to have been yet another slippery slope. Whether inherently flawed or just vulnerable to subversion, it is in part how we arrived at this juncture.
I'm not sure why you assume liberals are on the left. Communists and their friends like to say they are, when their other friends aren't saying "Liberals get the bullet too", but I'm not sure why I should trust a communist's view on anything.
If you're willing to work with the hypothesis that liberalism isn't left-wing, can you see why I'd make the points I'd made?
If by left-wing you mean overton window, then yes, I can accept it. It disgusts me with every fiber of my being to believe that the MSM, Democrats, Academia, and the filthy degenerates of the progressive wing have stripped the meaning and understanding of political leanings in this country. I don't believe marriage is the answer to every question regarding a family, but somehow I am considered right-wing via the overton window.