Me on October 6, 2023: These Republicans saying that the left "hates America" are wrong! That's just Fox News crap. The Left just wants America to be more equitable and just.
Me since October 7, 2023, seeing leftists ally themselves with and cheer for Islamic terrorists, Russia, China, Syria, etc., deny or support their atrocities, and vilify Ukraine and other allies based solely on whether or not they are supported by or opposed to the US: Oh my god. Oh my god the Republicans were right. They do just hate America. They hate America so much that it's their only guiding principle. They'll support anything, murder or rape or anything, as long as it's perpetrated by groups or countries opposed to the US. They say they oppose Israeli "imperialism" and care for suffering Palestinians but then support Russia and vilify Ukraine. They don't care about Muslim minorities in China or China's machinations toward Taiwan or Yemenis suffering under the Houthis or an entire nation suffering in Syria. They don't care about anyone suffering they just hate America. Oh my god.
#having to say “the republicans were right” about ANYTHING makes my skin crawl#but yeah#everything the left has shown us and proven to us since october is that all their principles are hollow and actually built on hatred#not compassion not humanity just hate however they can direct it. so how exactly are they different from the right?#thus....political homelessness. and a shattered worldview has been difficult#you can and should criticize american policy and bureaucracy and government officials#there are many many many of those things that i disagree with and revile#but the fact that we CAN disagree with them is a privilege in itself#innocents under oppressive regimes cannot do that. leftists supporting the extremists and not the people#really is something to behold#you are not winning over big bad america and the west by stanning hamas and the houthis#or claiming bin laden and mao and saying hitler had a point#or thinking the ccp is letting you be brave truth tellers#how did we get here#how did the left get this stupid#you do not under any circumstances gotta hand it to terrorist organizations
@jewishlivesmatter, your tags pass peer review.
It wasn't just Republicans saying this. Libertarians had been saying it for a while too, but got ignored as well.
Yeah, but Libertarians are just Republicans who want to smoke weed, so that's a distinction without a real difference.
What was shocking to me was realizing how many leftist, especially young leftists, seem to be almost a parody of what Fox News thinks leftists are.
They are less interested in improving people's lives than in finding who to blame for their problems. They think having the wrong identity makes you inherently a bad person. They think people who are oppressed should never have to take responsibility for anything.
Everything we've spent years or decades insisting leftists don't actually do or believe, there are now people pouring out of the woodwork, loudly proclaiming, "Yes, we do."
And I've come to a conclusion about these people.
These are not people who are leftists because they've read the theory, carefully thought through what it was saying, and what they did and did not agree with, and developed their beliefs.
These are people who grew up hearing about what a leftist was--maybe from their family, maybe from their community, maybe from Fox News-- and that a leftist is the worst thing a person can be. Then, at some point, they realized that their family or community or the news was full of shit. They looked at all the flaws in the ideas that they were raised with, and decided, if these people are wrong, then the correct answer must be whatever they hated most--a leftist.
Except that they never take the further step of asking, "was my family (or community, or the news) wrong about what leftist believe."
That part they never question.
The reason so many of them seem to be a Fox News version of a leftist is that's exactly what they are.
These people have no values or principles, they only have vocabulary. And they will listen to anyone who deploys the vocabulary the proper way.
