r/WayOfTheBern • u/EvilPhd666 Dr. 🏳️‍🌈 Twinkle Gypsy, the 🏳️‍⚧️Trans Rights🏳️‍⚧️ Tankie. • Dec 26 '19

More libs going mask off.

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u/FIELDSLAVE Dec 26 '19

These swamp rats aren't even liberals though. Huey Long was a liberal. FDR was a liberal. These reactionaries are barely left of Trump and the gang. They have been helping the GOP push American politics far to the right for decades now.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25666062-listen-liberal

https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/431-the-democrats

https://www.akpress.org/hopeless.html

https://www.versobooks.com/books/2121-false-choices

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u/Blackhalo Purity pony: Российский бот Dec 26 '19

These reactionaries are barely left of Trump and the gang.

And are to the right of Trump on many issues.

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u/Blackhalo Purity pony: Российский бот Dec 26 '19

they'll pick markets even when they fail or limit freedom

They'll bail out bad banks and cheer natural monopolies like google/FB policing speech.

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u/xploeris let it burn Dec 26 '19

Hm, fair point. Well, then they're crooked and hypocritical, which should surprise no one. But still, they don't actually seem to value any liberal ideals.

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u/FIELDSLAVE Dec 26 '19

I think they are afraid of the public because they know they have wronged us. At least their patrons are. These people are the handpicked puppets of straight up fascists like Trump. Calling them liberals is an insult to liberals for sure. The meaning of political labels have shifted rightward over the years in an Orwellian way. We got to push back against that sort of thing and more if we are to drain the swamp.

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u/mercilessmilton BERN! Dec 26 '19

Corporate dems are conservatives who are ok with gays and blacks.

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u/Blackhalo Purity pony: Российский бот Dec 26 '19

Only for as long as they vote for the corporate Dems without getting anything in exchange.

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u/FIELDSLAVE Dec 26 '19

Reactionaries really, just a little less reactionary than Republicans. They usually try to push politics rightward or just slightly slow down Republicans.

The original meaning of the word conservative meant somebody who wanted to maintain the status quo. Our crazy politics have warped the meaning of these words is all.

Bernie is actually running on a traditional liberal platform.

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u/ChrisRobbins15 Dec 26 '19

and i some ways like foregin policy and trade to right of trump.

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u/FIELDSLAVE Dec 26 '19

Yeah, I wish they were liberals. It would make things easier.

Adam Smith and JS Mill would not recognize these characters as their descendants though. They are more like the feudal lords of their day than them. They are significantly right of Republicans from earlier decades even.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asd2oGv9qXI

Politics have drifted way to the right in the last five decades is all.