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HorseLord
Aug 26, 2014

Jenner posted:

(Disclaimer: I am a very far left, perhaps even radical, liberal. Going so far as to register as a socialist in my voter registration.)

This is incoherent. How can you be a "far left radical" believer of the milquetoast center right ideology, liberalism? It makes no sense and makes me think you don't know what words mean - liberalism and socialism are opposed.

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HorseLord
Aug 26, 2014

Jeza posted:

America is really confused about the simple definitions of socialism and liberalism, just forget about it.

Yes but I want to know what it is that he thinks he's saying with that gibberish.

At any rate OP it seems really weird that you'd open a thread that's nothing but "Are people who have beliefs I'm clueless about all crazy???" The answer is no and as Mao said "no investigation? then shut the gently caress up until you've done some, moron"

HorseLord
Aug 26, 2014

Jenner posted:

I'm mentally ill, is my mental illness responsible for my Far Left liberalism? I'm not paranoid but I do have the occasional anxiety. :tinfoil:

Mental illness and extreme beliefs are an ouroboros!

It's interesting because traditional Liberalism has kinda been pushed to the center right (note: may not be a factual statement this is my perception.) So in theory it might be easier for someone to fall into the parameters of far/extreme leftism just by the nature of where traditional liberalism lies. Yet far/extreme leftists don't really seem to be particularly visible/vocal or have a lot of presence or influence in the Democratic party.


HorseLord posted:

This is incoherent. How can you be a "far left radical" believer of the milquetoast center right ideology, liberalism? It makes no sense and makes me think you don't know what words mean - liberalism and socialism are opposed.

HorseLord
Aug 26, 2014

gtrmp posted:

The end result is that "progressive", like "liberal", doesn't really mean much of anything in and of itself, other than indicating that the person or policy being labeled as such is implicitly in sync with the Democratic party line.

I like this because building their entire belief system around "whatever the democratic party HQ says must be right" lets them do wild poo poo, i mean really wild poo poo - all of the people who protested Bush's wars are now the biggest defenders of those wars, because the Democrats continued them. It's weird seeing them come out with literal neocon justifications for everything.

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