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There isn’t really a left in the US. You have right and righter.

• NickC25 3y ago
  And there's a lack of an actual left in the media. No idea why people keep parroting that the media is leftist. It's not. Big media has a very blatant pro-corporate bias, and they're quite proud of that. The semantics and bullshit around "social issues" like abortion or LGBT rights is just that - semantics and bullshit intentionally amplified to keep people focused on the wrong thing. There are two nearly identical sides, as you rightly point out. Just like political parties, where there's the pro-corporate party that's OK with minorities, and the super-pro-corporate party with a little religion mixed in. The media very much follows that same blueprint.
  • sojournerc 3y ago
    They are there, just not mainstream. Democracy Now comes to mind
• chiefalchemist 3y ago
  Fair enough, but since I don't consume much of the righter, I didn't want to speak to that.
• refurb 3y ago
  Is this a left wing version of No True Scotsman? Politics is relative. The US has a right and a left wing.
  • Podgajski 3y ago
    In name only. They both corporate parties. This gentleman explains it well. https://www.reddit.com/r/TikTokCringe/comments/18jbd11/this_is_america/ https://www.reddit.com/r/TikTokCringe/comments/18jbd11/this_...