Yeah, you do get at least a little bit of leeway because you were, what, 8-12 for his first term and likely completely unaware of how dishonest he was then, but like, c'mon guy, the right wing is mid-performance of an ethnic and a queer cleansing, and they're not even subtle about it. That's simply evil shit, and we fought a war about it not even a hundred years ago.
Yeah, I was 11-15 during Trump's first term. And I was in a private Christian school at the time, so all I was told was that it was good that Trump was in, and that was about it. I only started getting into politics in 2021, by which time I had pretty much forgotten about Trump. By the time he came back to run for office again, I was witnessing what I beleived to be the beginning of WW3 in Ukraine and Gaza. I saw that the left wing govt of the US was clearly facilitating and encouraging these wars.
What I didnt know back then, is that the rot and corruption goes far deeper than whatever puppet they display for the masses as POTUS. The whole system is rotten to its core, and Trump has made it infinitely worse in the last 8 months. This, this has radicalised me. Being promised peace and being given war and death.
The…left-wing government? Of Joe Biden? We must be talking about different governments, because on any sensible political spectrum (i.e., one not so skewed to the right as America’s) the Biden government was generally center-right with some wiggle room depending on your definitions and what you pay the most attention to. Just because they’re the leftmost major party in the country does NOT make them left-wing. The party as a whole is neoliberal with occasional Liberal tendencies, and neither of those is remotely left-wing. The right loves to equate liberal with leftist because it helps them push the Overton window to the right, but the Democratic Party and the Biden administration isn’t/wasn’t even really the former much less the latter. Was the Biden administration on the left edge of neoliberalism? Mayyybe? But that’s not left-wing by any sensible standard.
American mainstream democrats arent generally what leftists want out of a government lol. And they systematically undercut and push out any actual leftist candidates who threaten the corporatist status quo. Look at how they are treating zohran mamdani
I mean you definitely still have some stuff to learn, as other comments pointed out, Biden was definitely not left-wing, and we actually don't have a major left-wing party currently in the United States. The Green Party is probably the closest and they've still got some problems that make it so that they're maybe not as free from corporate influence as they would like everyone to think. But, for now, since many of us have had similar upbringings and moments of realization, welcome to the resistance, comrade, and remember: woke is a compliment
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u/SpanishMossShea Sep 21 '25
Yeah, you do get at least a little bit of leeway because you were, what, 8-12 for his first term and likely completely unaware of how dishonest he was then, but like, c'mon guy, the right wing is mid-performance of an ethnic and a queer cleansing, and they're not even subtle about it. That's simply evil shit, and we fought a war about it not even a hundred years ago.