• newfie@lemmy.ml
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    10 days ago

    When he says “left” he is referring to the neoliberal establishment.

    He understands that these are not the same thing. But his base doesn’t

  • daniyeg [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    10 days ago

    i think this is simply the classic chud case of “if i feel something is true then it must be true”. remember when they talk about the left they are talking about some imaginary global elite of trans-communo-islamists that control everything. yeah i would imagine my enemies were unified if i were to melt all of them together to a nebulous (they/)“them”.

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    10 days ago

    they don’t argue with each other in public

    lol

    put aside their differences for the sake of achieving a common goal

    I wonder if he’s tapping into something kinda true here. Like, if the American conservative movement didn’t have a group of people to label “Woke” (21st century neologism, compare to 20th century neologism “hippie”), what would they be? What would they stand for? They don’t really have a common ideal beyond, “Bad people go away”. They’d fracture and start fighting amongst themselves. I mean, it’s a group that includes everyone from fundamentalist evangelicals to crypto-hyping libertarians. For as much as the left fights amongst itself, there’s still a broader understanding that a better world is possible, that the pile of things we agree on is larger than pile we disagree over.