• GodlessCommie@lemmy.worldOPM
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    18 days ago

    because it’s a hard thing to live up to

    It’s only a hard thing to live up to if you’re not even trying. Liberals love talking a big game about how supportive they are, how inclusive they are, how determined they are to protect the rights of the marginalized while doing everything they can to keep those groups marginalized. The exact same claims that liberals try to make today about their party or the same claims they tried to make about their party 200 years ago. Your party will always represent capital and its exploitation of the working class

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          Sure, I’ll accept I am liberal and progressive and probably a socialist. But I don’t have a party to represent me. I can lean on the Democratic party but that gets me as far as it gets Sanders. So I have to be an independent that generally voters D

          Because I am not voting for a Republican

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            17 days ago

            Claiming that you are liberal or progressive and maybe a socialist is like a atheist Christian or a vegan carnivore, liberal and socialist are polar opposites on the political scale

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                17 days ago

                The left starts at anti-capitalism liberals are not anti-capitalist they prop up the system that socialists and Communists want to tear down that same system that exploits our labor while patting the pockets of the wealthy. Today’s liberals are first-term Trump Republicans