• thisbenzingring@lemmy.today
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    17 days ago

    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