4w ago

Calling yourself left wing doesn't mean you are left wing

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I would have described FDR as centre left
- FDR was a centrist afraid of a communist revolution. This is the only reason the US got the New Deal. Funny it didn't last 20 years before it started getting dismantled. They are now at the SS dismantling phase.
  Keep talking about reforming capitalism though.
  
  Okay so is every possible candidate for an American left wing leader just "a centrist whose afraid of communists?" Why even bother arguing with me then you've already made up your mind. The reality is he pushed through left wing legislation that pulled working class Americans out of the depression and put America onto the world stage as the leading power. His actions make him centre left regardless of the reasons you think he made them.
  FDR did more for American workers reforming capitalism than any revolutionaries have since.
  
  New Deal boosted USA economy for decades tho, shit got done & people could spend.
- The guy that locked up Japanese US citizens? A majority of the brains behind the New Deal came from his SoL Francis Perkins
  
  No left wing government has ever been authoritarian or had institutionalised racism, you're so right
If I am expected to answer for what XxCommieCoomer42069xX says on a discord channel, then I am at least left of center according to my calibrations.
Many political terms are so emotionally charged they are virtually useless except to insight controversy. In media it’s all a complete distraction to cause in-fighting and control how we think
Easily applied to México too, at most some parties might be center and from there lean left or right (and constantly switch) but we don't really have a leftist one.
Now one who is much more aligned to the right would be the current party in power, with all the shit they keep doing to strip us from our rights.
But the people seem happy being shitted on just so they are given a very small amount of money every 2 months so... We're doomed.

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