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Because it is both sides truthfully

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It really isn’t. The left is trying to fight the class war and the right are trying to deny trans people rights while sucking off capitalists. These are not the same thing.

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There is no Left in America except for a handful of Democrat Congressmen like Bernie Sanders and political thinkers like Chomsky,

Identity Politics itself isn’t Leftwing, it’s moral Liberalism, which is on a political axis which is a mainly orthogonal axis to the Left-Right one, thus the thinking of Identity Politics is something which can be part of the Leftwing when it’s just an element of a broader fight for Equality and treating all people fairly (so in there it’s not really a separate Identity Politics), or part of the Rightwing when the equality it fights for is narrowly defined so as to exclude the greatest inequality of all with the most widespread and impactful discrimination of all - Wealth Inequality - were it serves a sort of marketing function of “differentiating the product” of that political offer from that of other Rightwing political offers.

The later combination (Moral Liberalism + Rightwing) is Neoliberalism and is almost entirely all of what you have in the US with merely a handful of notable exceptions.

The US doesn’t have a Leftwing and a Rightwing main parties, it has a Morally Liberal Rightwing party and Morally Illiberal Rightwing party.

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I’m talking about the people, bud. But even still I’m including the few politicians that genuinely want shit to be done properly.

So…yes but I don’t know who you wrote that for.

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