I often see mentions of the disunity in the left and it being a real show stopper for achieving anything meaningful. Whats your take on that and also do you have any reasons(experiences, arguments etc) for that?
I often see mentions of the disunity in the left and it being a real show stopper for achieving anything meaningful. Whats your take on that and also do you have any reasons(experiences, arguments etc) for that?
Speaking on the personal level:
For whatever reason, the right is a big tent. Most people just need to agree on a few points to be accepted into whatever group they wanna join.
For some reason, that doesn’t seem to be true on the left. We expect our peers (and ourselves) to be flawless exemplars of whatever agenda we’re trying to push. There seem to be weird purity tests that everyone needs to pass in order to be Left Enough.
That’s toxic af and it harms our goals.
I’m not sure if that’s what you’re referring to, OP, but it gets my goat.
The right is not a big tent. The top 1% of people own half the wealth, so like… each person is a “big tent” all on their own. Importantly, the right doesn’t actually believe in anything other than whatever they can get away with “right now”. You can see this in the fact that the primaries in the US still have Trump as the head, and a party which is increasingly losing its grip.
Which is also not exactly a good thing btw, the democrats without a balancing force are just as dangerous.
Purity tests are great. I’m on a political discord server and they ask all new members if they’re going to call trans people slurs. Everyone who believes in calling trans people slurs gets kicked, and that means it’s a safe space for trans people. That leads to more left unity.