• LinkOpensChest.wav@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOP
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    6 months ago

    Fair enough. I’ve literally never met a liberal who didn’t somehow want to protect capitalist infrastructure, so this is also a new concept for me. If you have any texts about this, I’d love to read up on it. My perspective is bound to be US-centric because that’s where I live, unfortunately.

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      6 months ago

      This could be totally anecdotal (I need to check if there’s literature); in Europe right-wingers vehemently hate libs and use the term as a slur at the mildest (from the moderates) for even suggesting capitalism has failed. And of course the radical reactionaries put libs on the same extermination list as minorities, communists, anarchists etc.

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        6 months ago

        Oh conservatives do the same thing here, which creates the illusion for many people that the Democrats are leftist. They do the same thing in Canada. Ironically, our Democrats are always compromising with Republicans, so there’s ultimately little difference between the two parties.