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Find me one, I dare you. Leftism as an ideology requires the participant to either be too stupid to realize that their ideas have killed a hundred million people, or too evil to care.
Correct. There are no reasonable leftists but there are low IQ ones. You can only be a leftist if you're brainwashed which means you aren't reasonable.
You can find "reasonable liberals" who're mostly just classical liberals that haven't realized their movement led to leftism yet.
Glenn Greenwald seems pretty sensible.
But then again, imo it's pretty easy to see how things would play out if the left of today came into power and just on that alone I don't see how anyone could still call themselves a leftist. The stakes are way too high for that.
Reasonable leftists is like a seal loving penguin. They all get snuffed out early. You can probably find a number of people like that dispersed around the high school crowd, individuals who want to be good and kind to others and haven't yet experienced the hot poker of being accused of wrongthink yet.
That's the problem with accepting emotional rationale for your ethics--somebody can always claim a greater emotional cause. It generates a moral arms race that shifts the ideology further and further to the fringe. Most left thinkers don't have a concrete set of moral stances--just "Suffering is bad, and we should prevent suffering wherever we can". Well, suffering is unfortunately not objective and thus the goalposts move themselves.
I'm not going to downvote you for your answer being basically "Joe Lieberman", but the Democrat party of the 50s was fully in bed with the USSR, an outright foreign enemy of the nation. Hell they were in the 20s too, if it wasn't for Roosevelt and his cabal of socialists the United States would be a very different, and much better, place than it is right now.
I do not care. You are what you vote for.