It shouldn't amaze you, even if you aren't old enough to remember the mass cognitive dissonance that surrounded the USSR.
The left is not opposed to large business entities. There were plenty of them in the Soviet Union. They're opposed to entities that don't conform to whatever the leftist narrative is at the moment.
They were against Big Pharma back in the day because it was right-wing/capitalist/insert-buzzword-here. Then their thought leaders realized how useful it was in getting the general public to do what they want, so they pivoted and their followers pivoted with them.
Not only Big Pharma either. I'm not one to always go "Thanks Obama", but Obama was really instrumental in promoting the idea throughout the bureaucracy of a partnership between Corporations and Government. Where the government is supposed to enforce the law evenly to ensure a fair playing field, what they pivoted to was a carrot-and-stick approach where agencies have personal relationships with members of boards, the government makes "requests" through them, and the corpos get special treatment to break whatever laws they want as long as they comply with those requests. This includes hiring people from former intelligence agencies or the FBI to C levels. In other words blatant corruption and the embiggening of the Deep State in the name of "promoting the general welfare."
(And I only blame Obama for making it official but it's been going on at some level for decades. I think he was kind of a Manchurian Candidate to program people to accept shady things they were doing behind the scenes as good.)
That's the thing, I technically still have 90s Democrat beliefs.
Everyone should have free speech - this includes speech you don't like. Free speech protects minority views and views that are considered "reprehensible". You don't have to agree with the view to defend it
Big corporations are evil
Unions can be good if they are for trade jobs (automobile workers), but need to be banned/removed from white collar jobs like teachers and "journalists". They also need to be regulated to prevent them from growing too big in power.
Immigration is bad for the country because "da GEEBZ" ends up going to illegal pieces of trash who skipped the line. I'd rather if "da GEEBZ" exists, it goes to American citizens that need it.
Don't be explicitly racist to others. i.e. don't fucking walk up to someone in the street and start calling them niggers for no reason.
We should make fun of everyone because that's how we learn to get along, and if you're offended, fuck you.
All these beliefs now are considered "right wing", some of these beliefs can be coordinated properly into being "America First" nationalist beliefs too.
When I was able to wrap my head around the fact that it wasn't about the old left/right libertarian/authoritarian spectrum but rather globohomo vs nationalist, it made it much easier to visualize why it's far more important than the traditional left/right shit Westerners always bitch about.
When you view it from a Globohomo vs nationalist viewpoint then yes, some shit you do WILL make government bigger and spend money, but that's fine, because the shit you're doing is with the intent of making your country even more successful to be able to give the citizens more power over their own destiny, which ultimately strengthens the country itself as its citizens start appreciating the opportunities the country has given them.
It shouldn't amaze you, even if you aren't old enough to remember the mass cognitive dissonance that surrounded the USSR.
The left is not opposed to large business entities. There were plenty of them in the Soviet Union. They're opposed to entities that don't conform to whatever the leftist narrative is at the moment.
Sure, but that would require me to take literally anything they say at face value.
They were against Big Pharma back in the day because it was right-wing/capitalist/insert-buzzword-here. Then their thought leaders realized how useful it was in getting the general public to do what they want, so they pivoted and their followers pivoted with them.
Not only Big Pharma either. I'm not one to always go "Thanks Obama", but Obama was really instrumental in promoting the idea throughout the bureaucracy of a partnership between Corporations and Government. Where the government is supposed to enforce the law evenly to ensure a fair playing field, what they pivoted to was a carrot-and-stick approach where agencies have personal relationships with members of boards, the government makes "requests" through them, and the corpos get special treatment to break whatever laws they want as long as they comply with those requests. This includes hiring people from former intelligence agencies or the FBI to C levels. In other words blatant corruption and the embiggening of the Deep State in the name of "promoting the general welfare."
(And I only blame Obama for making it official but it's been going on at some level for decades. I think he was kind of a Manchurian Candidate to program people to accept shady things they were doing behind the scenes as good.)
because leftists don't care about hypocrisy. they only care about """winning"""
That's the thing, I technically still have 90s Democrat beliefs.
All these beliefs now are considered "right wing", some of these beliefs can be coordinated properly into being "America First" nationalist beliefs too.
When I was able to wrap my head around the fact that it wasn't about the old left/right libertarian/authoritarian spectrum but rather globohomo vs nationalist, it made it much easier to visualize why it's far more important than the traditional left/right shit Westerners always bitch about.
When you view it from a Globohomo vs nationalist viewpoint then yes, some shit you do WILL make government bigger and spend money, but that's fine, because the shit you're doing is with the intent of making your country even more successful to be able to give the citizens more power over their own destiny, which ultimately strengthens the country itself as its citizens start appreciating the opportunities the country has given them.