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They don’t need to be left leaning.
by eigart 2y ago
They don’t need to be left leaning.
- cess11 2y agoAre you sure about that?
- eigart 2y agoYou can never be sure, but I don’t think support for Trump’s regime is a left/right issue.
- cess11 2y agoWhy?
- eigart 2y agoI didn’t say it was balanced. But look at what happened at SDNY last week. Several conservative prosecutors went against the DOJ.
- andrewflnr 2y agoIt shouldn't be, but unfortunately it is, with only a few exceptions.
- throwway120385 2y agoIf you read up-page in some of the other threads you'll find some right/libetarian people who are also against Trump because of how he's pushing us into authoritarianism.
- dragonwriter 2y agoYes, right libertarians often oppose right authoritarianism, but that doesn't transform support or opposition to right authoritarianism to something that has no left/right valence.
- throwway120385 2y agoWell yeah, in a consensus-based process you have to accept that not everyone is going to agree with you all the time. But you do have to try to push forward on things where there is consensus. There was a county committee that had a libertarian on it who would often advocate from a libertarian standpoint, whereas the people the committee affected were often more left/collectivist. However, he found himself briefly aligned with the rest of the group when a county official tried to do something that was against the law.
- andrewflnr 2y agoDude, what is your point? We're pointing out a trend and you keep trying to counter by pointing out exceptions. It's the nature of real-life trends to have exceptions, so their existence doesn't even come close to invalidating the model.
- andrewflnr 2y agoGood for them on actually paying attention to their principles. The overall alignment is still quite clear, though.
- dragonwriter 2y ago"Left/right" is always at best an approximation, because the space of political ideology is multidimensional, and because differences in praxis (how to achieve the goals set by ideology) will often be as signficant in people's support for or opposition to concrete regimes as differences in ideology, but the Trump regime definitely is suppported much more on the right and opposed much more on the left.
- tehjoker 2y agofwiw my comment was not solely about trump, the parties are both undemocratic and do not serve the people