One of the dumbest die for democrats users on lemmy, both can’t understand why people see the usa as an empire AND refuses to see that it was what George Lucas based the empire on in star wars
One of the dumbest die for democrats users on lemmy, both can’t understand why people see the usa as an empire AND refuses to see that it was what George Lucas based the empire on in star wars
I honestly think I hate liberals more than conservatives sometimes, at least conservatives just take a simple evil position instead of bending over backwards and breaking every bone in their bodies (not their spines, they never had those to begin with) while unhinging their jaws to twist the most evil shit you’ve ever heard into sounding like the lesser evil
My dad (conservative) would talk about how unfair the health system is (we got royalled screwed by it as a family like 5 unique times, besides the usual amount of shit it piles on a typical family). Then he’d rant about how Bernie was a commie when XY news showed a clip of Bernie talking about the 1% or single payer or whatever. Atleast he wanted (then and now) something to change and clearly understood at some level something was wrong. He wouldn’t support that change without it going through some republican worm, but he knows this shit sucks at least.
Lots of liberals either are or pretend to be on the “good” side of the system (IE: can afford the bills, can travel if they want to skip a line, etc). So they pretend like nothing is wrong, Joe Blow is “just” mad at minorities (while also hating minorities aswell), and that this system is the best thing that ever could be created.
Feels a lot of the time that conservatives are failed communists (because they get funnelled into it), while liberals are wannabe communists (because they funnel themselves away). Conservatives (seemingly, or pretendingly) don’t even know what the reality of political theory entails. (IE: Couldn’t tell you what Liberal meant in 1850 vs 2000.) Liberals know enough politcal theory to be able to say something slightly more intelligent (IE: could answer the above). But also know they can’t even nominally support any policy left of Hitler because then they wouldn’t be "liberal"s anymore.