Polemic/elections

Polemic

I am a Hard Left Social Democrat, Third Camp Syncretic and fan of Populism

My main support is for Populists (i.e Populist Caucus) and Independents, Hard Left, Blue Collar Caucus, and modern Classical Liberals 

I support the Labour Party UK  (current Labour Party UK Social Democracy/some aspects of 2017-2019 Labour Party UK Social Democracy/Momentum/Guild Socialism)  

elections

I can say that the Georgia voting law is racist . But I can't understand how the GA voting law is racist

While I support the electoral college I believe we need a system for our country where we have a direct democracy which allows people to directly vote on things as opposed to representive democracy that we currently have . This is because representive democracy is open to abuse by special interests and political influence. Direct democracy laws are short enough for people to know what they mean.

I am ok with states not requiring ids to vote

I support first time voters needing to provide id to vote if they registered by mail and didn't provide the correct id to register.

I support people being required to sign an affidavit when they vote each time along with being required to provide their signature to verify with a signature kept on file when they vote each time

I believe that if a citizen does not consistently vote, they should re register before the next election. If they do consistently vote, they shouldn't have to re register before the next election except to update information (which wouldn't be a bad idea every now and again). 

I support poll workers obsessively and thoroughly reading and checking the voter rolls

I am open minded to blockchain voting for elections for make elections more secure.

I believe that more Americans need to be politically active

I am against Blexit and we need to fight against it to ensure BIPOC+ are not lured away. BIPOC+ are very important to our party as we can help them more than anyone,  and we can't allow them to tricked by the Republicans to become Republicans. Republicans want more BIPOC+ in their party so they don't look racist (regardless of whether they really are) but they are only using BIPOC+ as token minorities for self gain and to get back at us and we can't allow that. 

BIPOC+ Democrats have made very positive contributions for their community, our party (Democratic Party) and this country for countless years and their contributions should be celebrated. As such, we owe it to them to not let them be stolen from us through nonsense like Blexit

I am apolitical for ex convicts and inmates voting in elections

I do not support the Electoral College being removed or replaced since it might hurt BIPOC+ if that happens

I guess I am ok with Instant runoff voting

I  support first past the post voting since it seems like decent election reform

I am against DC becoming a state.

I agree with Joe Biden that the 2022 mid term elections might be illegitimate. I also agree with Biden on the need to make the case to the American people that some of things that the Republicans are doing might be done to try the alter the 2022 mid term elections

I am sick and tired of people falsely saying that 'Joe Biden is not our President'. Biden is our President and in my mind he is just as legit as any other President we've had. 

I am glad that Joe Biden is President. He got his dream job after working his way up from a blue collar everyman widower to leader of the free world. After 8 years of being VP, he finally got to be President. It's always good to see VPs upgrade and become President.  Plus it's cool that a silent generation person is President

I feel Tucker Carlson isn't an intelligent person if he gets his talking points on migration from far right/alt right forums. He should do more research and rely on better sources before he speaks about migration and Democrats. 

Even if migrants voted more D than R, (https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2013/07/22/are-unauthorized-immigrants-overwhelmingly-democrats) , so what? I am a Democrat and so I cannot complain about that. It may be true but there is no hidden 'conspiracy' by Democrats to have Democrat voter migrants magically replace non Democrat voter migrants. The Democrats aren't smart enough to devise such a scheme.  We can't even pass progressive policies with a Democrat house.  

America has always been a haven for migrants of all stripes, whites had their migration boon (17th century through mid 20th century) and since the 1960s it's now BIPOC+ having their migration boon here.  Everything evens out.  Our country was Native American before white, so having all of these BIPOC+ being here in the majority is a throwback to pre white colonization America

Barack Obama was born in Hawaii (the same way that Fred Gandy mocks people who think Obama is a Muslim , I mock people who think Obama was born in Kenya).  

Donald Trump was ovalized in Scotland (where his mother is from) while Obama was ovalized in Kanas ie the US (in Jewish law, only maternal ancestry matters).  

Jewish people don't run everything. Out of the 500 most relevant multinational corporations (including world wide government),  Jews are just a very tiny fraction of those relevant multinational corporations

I support reinstating the Glass-Steagall Act of 1933.

non elections

I am a tolerant person in a traditionally liberal tolerant way (i.e pre mid late 2010s, NON successor ideology way) 

I support free inquiry

I support countering and fighting against worldly sophistication, which is why I support that anti worldly sophestication part of the 4pt. See my anti consumerism and other anti postmodernish thoughts on this throughout my blog

I oppose the bourgeoisie, neoliberalism and regressive liberalism, DINOs and paganism. I agree with the Fourth Political Theory on some of their Anti Liberal critiques (grain of salt and with nuance)

I don’t believe that the Constitution is infallible and I think it has a few issues

I support bringing back the Articles of the Confederation. I believe in some ways the constitution has failed us

I support freedom of speech almost as much Elon Musk. I feel Twitter should be run like Mastadon and have various communities of users while allowing far right-alt right communities (who are as free as Gab) but shunning them from the Twitter networks and communities the same way that Mastadon shuns Gab from their networks and communities

Twitter is a private company and they don't want freedom of speech, they want all users to live in harmony. So they restrict speech they think upsets that harmony even if some of almost most of it maybe true (ymmv).  If they'd come out and say that, they wouldn't be trashed

Twitter pushes a lot of people they ban underground where they become more extreme. Like with legalizing drugs, allowing those users to stay on Twitter might be a way to counter (via liberal Twitter users) those things they Tweet that get them ban

I do believe that healthy reasonable conversation is more ideal than free speech absolutism. Political dissent that is treasonous, causes hate crimes, defames, causes violence ,harasses should be countered and condemned

Talib Kweli deserved to be banned from Twitter. He was harassing BIPOC+ women because they were criticizing him. Instead of him trying to see where they were coming from and politely replying to them, he harassed them. That type of harassment needs to end. He should apologize to all of them

This is a great solution to the Twitter privacy problem: https://bford.info/2015/10/07/names.html

I am fine with Republicanism , especially the extreme paternalistic kind that ensures everyone is happy

Republicans are problematic because they want to fight instead of being diplomatic. When both sides come together like in the 1970s, that when our political division wounds will be healed

A case can be made that having too much freedom is not a good thing .There must be a limit to freedom somewhere.

I believe RadLiberal Hypocrisy is real and a problem. It's not as bad as some make it out to be and there are two sides to it but by and large it is an issue.

The far right-alt right today are an angry opposition that are no longer capable of participating constructively in political debate with conservatives (according to John Podhoretz) 

Qanon is a myth and nonsensical garbage. I thought that Pizzagate (another myth and nonsensical garbage) was a conspiracy started by Liberals not Conservatives until I found out better. 

If anyone killed Jeffrey Epstein it's the Republicans 

A Darwinian Left provides a good framework about how to fix at least some modern issues within the Democrat party and with Liberalism and Progressivism in general

I support political leaders who don't force their will upon people

People should build strategic alliances with political, cultural and ideological opponents

We should allow Left, Progressive Right and Center (ideally Radical Center) into Anarchist movements 

I am an anti statist but I do not support states rights and I am not a constitutionalist .I do not support the Tenth Amendment . 

bias

How can us Democrats see things totally opposite of what Republicans see? One reason is, Conservatives minds are wired to be fearful and anxious of new things while Democrats minds are wired to be bold and fearless in adopting new viewpoints or embracing new things. 

Groupthink is one of the worst parts of the human psyche and we should guard against it , whether it is in politics, business, holidays etc.  From David French "With a striking empirical regularity, deliberation tends to move groups, and the individuals who compose them, toward a more extreme point in the direction indicated by their own predeliberation judgments. In plain English, this means that when like-minded people gather, their views get more extreme. Our arguments reinforce one another to such an extent that the entire group will sometimes become more extreme than the most extreme person at the start of the deliberation"

Republicans and Conservatives can have their parallel societies (like alt tech) if they feel abused because of their apparent 'bigotry'

There is at least somewhat liberal media biased in the media and that is a fact. Most reporters and editors are liberal. I've seen left wing sources downplay it so I think at minimum they are right (but I think there is more bias than they let on)

Liberal bias: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia_talk%3AReliable_sources%2FPerennial_sources&diff=prev&oldid=1058700530

https://www.commentary.org/articles/bari-weiss/resist-woke-revolution/?s=04

https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/565489-chuck-todd-liberal-bias-doesnt-exist-in-media-it-absolutely-does

Robert Reich is correct about the threat of Corporatism. Corporations are starting to run our society and many of them are a threat to our democracy. It's bad enough they feed off of monopolies and buying other corporations but now they are crossing the line. Reich's book provides great insight into this. We need to fight against Corporatism before it engulfs our country. Corporations have their own agenda that transcends Right-Left split. We must stop that, bipartisanly.  Both parties have sold our to corporatism. Corporations are not people. They should stay out of politics. Big corp can easily swing the other way and if that happens, we are screwed

Transnational Corporations are a threat to our society. They cause many of the race-ethnic issues and unrest that we have today

Many of our fiscal problems are caused by multinational corporations. Transnational corporations run our world, and are a growing threat to our democracy due to the power and influence they have in politics and consumer culture 

We need to end Corporate personhood. Corporations are not people.

I empathize with the concerns of the OP in this Reddit post https://www.reddit.com/r/AskALiberal/comments/jvu8to/i_used_to_be_a_liberal_4_years_ago_but_im/ and with the view that left are hypocritical at times with free speech.  I also don't like the far left's heretic hunting.  

Wikipedia is bad because they are now woke (source: Andrew Orlowski). They also say tone deaf things about BLM not realizing that there will never be any significant amount of BIPOC+ users (and by the nature of the site most users who are BIPOC+ won't identify as such). Wikipedia goes too far left too many times for me in terms of bias. Wikipediocracy and Jimbo Wales admitted there is some liberal bias, too much for my blood.

The SPLC is too far left. They shouldn't have went woke in 2020 with removing black racist groups. They go too far using association fallacy, misinformation -misleading information . Even Wikipedia admits that the SPLC is left bias. SPLC was wrong to fire Morris Dees. SPLC needs to go back to its roots, while fighting hate the way that the founders intended. Not through SJW woke methods

party position/roles

I am part Austromarxist because Austromarxism relevant today due to the growing complexity of the new contexts of global society and the multiplication of migrations and refugees. Austromarxism is also relevant today due to the need to respond to minorities through accommodation via mechanisms of territorial and non territorial autonomy.

I support the creation of a caucus thats values include ideally stopping illegal immigration (or realistically stopping mass illegal immigration), ending wars and warmongering by the US, and promoting fair trade that benefit American workers

If I was alive in the 1960s and politically active, I would have been a stimulating member of the New Left

I repudiate the modern Republican GOP. I reject modern conservativsm as corrupt and decrepit (alt right)

People on both sides have a common tendency to exaggerate the viewpoints of their ideological opponents. They usually see on average, twice as much difference as actually exists. 

There are also imagined extremism. This comes in a via conflicts over abortion rights, the interpretation of a racial-ethnic incident, the attitudes of certain social viewpoints etc

In disputes on politics, everyone seriously overestimates the polarization between both sides. This is due to demonization by each side toward the other

I believe that the government/state should stay out of enforcing moral changes in most to nearly all situations.  Moral evolution can happen many times apart of the government/state and relations between people can emerge with freedom from the government/state. Most relationships in life should not be characterized as conflict as the left and right might have it. It's good to have mutual and humane respect for others as individuals.   It's also good to do positive and unselfish things without having to grapple with the political ramifications of doing those positive things.  

Mark Twain said it best "Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect"

'If You Are Not a Liberal When You Are Young, You. Have No Heart, and If You Are Not a Conservative. When Old, You Have No Brain

The Democrat Conservatives of the 1960s were a lot better than the Republican Conservatives from the 1970s onward.  This is why I am a supporter of 1960s Democrat Conservatism 

The Republicans in the 1980s were a pretty good political party. Back then Republicans were seen as go getter yuppies and business people. On Family Ties for example, Alex, who was a typical 1980s Republican was a small-government, pro-capitalist libertarian at heart. Alex was hip and cool. The 1980s Republicans were a great party unlike the Republicans of today. This article puts it better than I can http://web.archive.org/web/20191011195307/https://www.cracked.com/article_26594_the-classic-sitcom-that-looks-completely-insane-in-2019.html 

I don't feel the need to insult Donald Trump since so many people have already (including from his former cabinet members, family members, the Pope)

But if I must insult Donald Trump:

Donald Trump is the Prince of Darkness. I am convinced that Donald Trump is a combination of Hannibal Lecter, Dr Evil, the Antichrist, Freddy Krueger and Godzilla all rolled into one!

Donald Trump is a scoundrel , he shaved Mr McMahon's hair at Wrestlemania 23!!  That was so heelish of Trump to cause such pain and misery to such an upstanding and respectful person (McMahon) who helped build the WWE to what it is today. I bet McMahon's grandkids were crying in horror as they saw Trump and Lashley shave and abuse McMahon.

Donald Trump also is a celebaphobe, he fired SO MANY celebrities as host of the Apprentice!!

Donald Trump is a TRAITOR!!!. He was a Mets fan his whole life (he is from Queens), yet he rooted for the Atlanta Braves in person during their World Series game vs the Astros!!!  Um, hello?  The Braves won the NL East like trillions of times in the 1990s and 2000s while destroying the Mets nearly every time they played and this turncoat Trump roots for them (the Braves)?  BENEDICT TRUMP!!!

Trump also is a crook, he robbed my family of money through his casinos (Trump Plaza, Trump Taj Mahal, Trump Castle)

Donald Trump's hair is a major cause of climate change due to all of the hair spray he uses on it.

I support a synthesis of all values (i.e Far Left, Left Wing, Progressive Conservative, Conservative Liberal, so basically to create a stew of Radically Centrism)

I don't know what else to call the January 6 2021 capitol thing other than what the MSM and liberals/progressives say that it is.   But what it wasn't was as bad or worse than 9/11 or the darkest day in our nation's history. It was also not a terrorist attack or Domestic terrorist attack.

When I heard about the January 6 2021 incident at the Capitol and saw MSM reactions to it, I actually LOL at the Progressive and Liberal commentators getting so bent out of shape about it and actually saying that it was 'as bad or worse than 9/11' or 'the darkest day in our nation's history' or calling it a 'terrorist attack' and similar overreactions to it.  We say we don't want walls on our border, but somehow it is ok to put a wall at our Capitol?  

I believe that comparing domestic terrorists within the Republican party to ISIS and Al Qaeda is counterproductive, wrong, ignorant, divisive and in bad taste. They may be domestic terrorists or brawlers but they are not anywhere near as bad or violent as ISIS, Al Qaeda and similar groups. Labeling the other side names causes division. We know they aren't like ISIS and Al Qaeda. Let's prove that we know that

Sometimes, I am tempted to support Populist Republicans just to PO Democrats and Liberals to force the Democrat Party to drop the successor ideology,for accelerationism reasons  and allowing for a party within a party system. It would also be a fun way to troll people. Like if I decide to vote for a Populist Republican candidates every 2 or 4 years , I don’t think the Earth will break. Those Populist Republicans are all talk but no game, once they get into office their extreme policies will not be passed and they will be tamed, see MTG, Jan Brewer, Mike Pence etc for proof,

It might not be so bad.  Though I am being crazy, so I probably won't do that, but it's a fun outside the box thought. 

Bad Apples

I am tempted to support the America First Caucus being created but for left acceleration reasons in order to force our country to move way left on migration, equality etc (to go from Center right to at least Left Center). Outside the box

It is insane and evil that Democrats, and so called liberals and progressives falsely insist that anyone on their side who has opinions that diverge from their sacred views must be a grifter or right winger. Those Democrats and so called liberals and progressives smear them with these fake labels to delegitimize them since the Democrats, and so called liberals and progressives are afraid of being exposed for the authoritarian, fascists they are

The left and the right sharing opinions and agreeing with each other on some things isn’t some magical new phenomenon. People are allowed to have different opinions on political issues. The Democrats, and so called liberals and progressives instead of debating them , smear them, trash them and that is wrong, evil and against the values that our country was founded on

The horseshoe theory is fake. But according to senseless liberal logic, it is ok for them to work with NeverTrumpers to attack right wing things but it is not ok for the left to work with the right to attack liberal or progressive things , what looney liberal hypocrites 

If Democrats, and so called liberals and progressives keep smearing people on their side who disagree with them as grifters ,DINOs, tankies or right wingers,  I promise on my LIFE the Democrat Party and its base will be destroyed from within, no one wants to be part of a liberal progressive echo chamber cult like the Democrat party where they have to parrot every Democrat party, liberal and progressive talking point or be smeared as a grifter or right winger by hard left illogical fools who live in a bubble and are too chicken shit to defend their view points.

I echo this article https://reason.com/2022/02/08/joe-rogan-and-the-weird-new-definition-of-right-winger/https://nypost.com/2022/05/22/the-left-targets-people-like-elon-musk-for-not-conforming/  Sam Harris, Russell Brand ,Tulsi Gabbard, Sam Seder, Jimmy Dore, Joe Rogan, Bill Maher, BGJ, Krystal Ball, Kyle Kulinski, Vaush, Bret Weinstein are NOT right wing (they aren’t even center right) and are NOT grifters and only hard left EXTREMISTS in their little Democrat, liberal progressive online safe space echo chambers would disagree with me. 

Over 80 percent of Americans are further to the right of Krystal Ball, Sam Seder, Kyle Kusinski, Jimmy Dore,Vaush, BGJ, Bill Maher and Sam Harris

Over 67 percent of Canadians and Europeans are further to the right of Krystal Ball, Sam Seder, Kyle Kusinski, Jimmy Dore,Vaush, BGJ, Bill Maher on race issues, Islam, LGBTQ issues , women’s issues , gun issues, on the environment and that is a FACT jack.

If those people are ‘grifters’ than literally EVERY Democrat, liberal and progressive in the US, Canada, Australia, Europe etc are grifters because it is impossible to not be one with how questionable the Democrats, liberals and progressives in the US have gotten. It’s that the majority of Democrats, liberals and progressives do a better job at hiding it

Over 90 percent of Americans would say that Krystal Ball, Kyle Kulinski, Jimmy Dore, BGJ, Vaush, Russell Brand are NOT right wing or even center right. Over 66 percent of Europeans and Canadians would say that Krystal Ball, Kyle Kulinski, BGJ, Vaush, Russell Brand are NOT right wing or even center right (at least on social issues)

Maybe instead of Democrats, and so called liberals and progressives demonizing their fellow Democrats, liberals and progressives who don’t pass their stupid, punitive and petty purity tests, they should instead go after the hard left extremists in their own party for pushing people further right or causing people like the above people to agree with the right on a few issues. I echo what Tim Dillion said on this matter. 

Maybe Democrats, Liberals and progressives know that the left agreeing with the right proves some of the Democrat views are wrong and that’s why they smear them. I’ll take so called ‘grifters’ anyday over social fascist authoritarian actual bigots like Joe Biden, AOC, Chuck Schumer, Nancy Pelosi, CNN, Washington Post etc.  I am going to force the Democrats, liberals to stop calling Krystal Ball, Russell Brand, Kyle Kulinski, Vaush and BGJ grifters and right wingers , we must destroy all Democrats, liberals and progressives who smear them as right wingers and or grifters, to save the Democrat party from the evil .Think of me as a hero to do this, to rescue the US snd world from satanism

I am against liberal and progressive purity tests. I am against them going scorched Earth to protect and stand up for minorities. They act like the science is settled (science always changes) as if we already know all that there is to know on those subjects and demonize anyone who dares questions it

Instead of focusing on things our side agrees on, the purity test liberals and progressives focus on the things they don’t agree on and act on the things they don’t agree on as if it is rooted in bigotness (which is a naive ignorant hasty conclusion to jump to)

Liberals and Progressives WRONGLY and ignorantly believe if your views don’t align 100 percent with their views you are bad. This needs to end fast and end forever. I agree with these hosts https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Me2QEuNNVkg&feature=emb_title

I am a almost fan of Steve Bannon (his non bigoted views only). The no new Scotsman thing id a logical fallacy

If we leftists had defended humanism, liberalism and the non bad forms of universalism, there wouldn’t have been an extreme right today. Left wing Identity politics and anti freedom of expression (ie censorship) led to the rise of the extreme right so the left plays a part in that. My advice to to those extreme right people is “don’t join hate groups. Nothing can be gained by linking yourselves to any organizations who agitate animosities or propagate hatreds. Such organizations are immoral and are only negative.”

I have no issues with what right wingers call 'Democrat-Liberal-Progressive fascism'.  I do wish we'd be more diplomatic but if we were they'd call us snowflakes. So pick your poison 

Republicans are wrong for being warmongering, not having control of the economy but allowing big corporations to have control over it and for having values that don't align with liberal/progressive values

I am against our party using harsh labels on Republicans and Conservatives like 'Jim Crow 2.0' (voting rights act), 'American Taliban' (abortion law in Texas) , Israel Apartheid (Israel settlements). We wouldn't want the other side to do that so it's only fair we don't either. Besides those labels are 100 percent inaccurate, cruel, hateful and harsh.  Such demonization of the right causes them to hate us, and see us as enemies

If we value diversity, we should value diversity of viewpoints (assuming those viewpoints are not bigoted). If we only hear viewpoints of the people who think like us or who we agree with, that is not a healthy thing and is a close minded, ignorant thing to do.

I take some of the Autonomous Antifa groups' ideas (ie their more 'salvageable ones) and fuse them with my own since I support Autonomism .

I do not support Antifa

I am fine w Liberal outing Conservatives only because such a thing is a site ban offense on Wikipedia so to see Liberals do such a thing in real life and not get in trouble for it is intriguing 

I am against the Democrats censuring Krysten Sinema. Shame on those bullies for censuring her. Mark Kelly was correct

A lot of people become Far right due to their emotional response to shame, guilt, frustration and alienation so that should be taken into account with extremists on the right

I've always been bothered with how Liberals and progressives gang up on conservatives, people they don't agree with or companies and other entities they don't agree with on social media whenever those people say something offensive or does something that triggers those liberals and progressives. I feel that liberals and progressives actually bully some of those people and this is not something we should be doing as it is beneath us and lowers us to their level.  

But I am not for it, it's more fun to be against that than for it (ie it's more fun to be anti something than for something)

I've seen this with Elon Musk. Look at who is ganging up on him: NY Times, George Soros (as always) AOC, Elizabeth Warren, Joy Reid, Robert Reich, TechCrunch, Howard Dean, Shaun King, George Takei , pretty much anyone who served in any capacity under Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, etc  How would these liberals and progressives enjoy having the tide turned on them? They wouldn't like it so much, just ask Debra Messing how it feels.

Doesn't it seem 'weird' that its always the same liberals and progressives who protest against things they don't like?  Same corporations, same celebrities, same news orgs, same political people, same organizations etc. 

We need to end this ganging up, public shaming and bullying of people we don't agree with , because if we don't it could swing the other way fast if the right gets power and then we're really f***d.  

Social media brings out the worst in people, and creates echo chambers and hive minds and that needs to stop.

A lot of liberals and progressives (along with Independents) are being manipulated in ways they do not realize

Sometimes college diplomas are meaningless in that they do nothing to help graduates get work . Such graduates feel alienated from their work due to this since they can't find work