Tehon
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Speaking as a leftist, it seems to me that the left has been unwittingly dragged to the right. The democrat party has fully embraced the neo liberal/conservative values generally associated with the right.the right has been racing to the right for 2 decades now.
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....and in equal measure, the left has been racing to the left.
thus the problem.
If a person is far enough left, everything else looks right to them and if they are far enough right, everything looks left.
Abandon this sense of yours that your politics is your tribe, and you might see that.
"Safe spaces" on campus where racist people of color can eliminate whites from their midst, bakers being forced to write statements on cakes supporting gay marriage, talk of "microaggressions", an avowed socialist nearly winning the democratic nomination -- I'd say the left has traveled an ENORMOUS distance to the left since the days of Kennedy.
an avowed socialist nearly winning the democratic nomination
The term "socialist" seems to have lost all meaning these days. What Bernie Sanders supported was a more equitable capitalistic system. That being said......he didn't win, wasn't really all that close. The neo conservative/liberal won, which tends to support my point.
I am not a member of any tribe, FWIW.