On the thinking of liberal Democrats - The New Neo
Commenter “Yawrate” writes: I think it’s important to make a distinction between Dem leftists and Dem liberals. The leftists are destructive and driven by a need for power and they gin up support from many aggrieved leftist useful idiots that … Continue re...
This just reads like the tired old blame shuffling.
"Oh, everything the Left stood for back in the day was always kinda good and even conservative, it was just those bad apples who ruined it by going too far. I never could even consider the Right as even fucking people so I'm actually a victim too, so don't blame me for anything that's happening!!"
Playing word games about liberal and leftist and Democrat doesn't change the fact that all of the above supported most of what got us into this mess, and now they want to shirk all the responsibility for doing so once we reached fucking critical mass where its likely a fucking civilization collapse is our only respite.
If at any point you were a Leftist/Democrat/Whatever you were never a secret unknown Conservative, because in order to even remotely be in that camp you had to be for removing the things we were supposed to be conserving. The fact that the overton window has shifted this hard doesn't let you slither out of that.
You can be one now, but you weren't one then anymore than a tranny in their late 20s was always a girl.
funny how these people neither demand these bad apples to be ousted nor stop enabling their lunacy and malicousness by voting blue (no matter who)
Back in the day the Democrats were for good things, or pretended to be.
Like when liberals started the EFF they were for protecting your rights online, and now they're in favor of censorship. Even farther back ACLU was for civil liberties, now they push racial discrimination. ADL was against defamation, the now-American Defamation League is guilty of defamation.
I voted democrat because they more aligned with my principles and when they didn't anymore then I switched. It's not an existential crisis for me.
Other people voted Democrat because they were loyal party members and that was okay because their principles didn't get in the way. Now they're saying how can we be Democrats when we want free speech, equal enforcement of the law, equal rights, and all the other things modern Democrats hate? That's a crisis they have to resolve somehow; oh they were secretly conservatives, or true-liberal liberals.
Or, for most of them, they're still Democrats and instead they just reject all their former principles so they can still be part of the tribe.