Yeah it's pretty funny. I really hope it's a fluke and he was just lying for attention, because otherwise his life is about to get fucked up real quickly.
It's not that abstract. Trump supporters, they're the right. Far-right, to be precise.
Someone was just arguing that Biden is Right, and that "the left" have no real representation. Where do you stand on that?
Biden is center-right, along with the Democratic party establishment. It's a correct assertion that the left has no real representation, at least on the national level. Local chapters of the DSA is the best we have.
To add to this, both parties in the US are some form of right, with the republicans being far right and going even further as time goes on. That said however, lack of party representation does not mean that ideas are unpopular, it means that the two party system doesn't work.
The overton window in the US has shifted pretty far to the right, yes. The vast majority of citizens used to support strong social programs and social safety nets, as well as a high tax rate on the wealthy. Back when growth of the middle class was at its peak.
Correct, which is why the tragedy is that we allowed billionaires to come into existence in the first place, when being a multimillionaire is already more than enough to live a comfortable life and provide for a very large family. The only reason to hoard billions of dollars like a dragon on a pile of gold is to gain influence over the system, and thus gain influence over people completely unrelated to you. So it is that we drift ever closer to authoritarian oligarchy with each passing day.
Yeah, that's the nature of our system, it's built in such a way that the 1% pull all the strings and ensure their power is never challenged, unless you come from someone who's rich already. That's why we need a new system from the ground up, because the status quo doesn't work and we should quit trying to affirm something so fictional.
Why would billionaires fight against their own interests on behalf of the working class, though? When you have such obscene amounts of money, you start to see everybody less wealthy as nothing but ants or pawns, playthings. Money may or may not be the root of all evil, but it certainly enables evil on a much larger scale than would otherwise be possible.
What you're talking about is a meritocracy, which capitalism most assuredly is not. Instead, where you start from is a 99% accurate predictor of where you'll end up. People like Trump and Musk have never done an honest day's work in their entire lives. Leftist ideals would bring us much closer to a meritocracy, wherein every individual is the beneficiary of the fruits of their own labor, rather than having lazy CEOs leech millions of dollars per hour off the backs of those underneath them.
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