>A few seconds’ reflection is enough to realize that this isn’t how American politics work. When the right is in power, the political center of gravity moves right as well. Bill Clinton’s hated style of triangulation was a reaction to eight years of Ronald Reagan followed by four of George H.W. Bush, a period in which liberalism came to be seen as a massive electoral liability. During George W. Bush’s administration, the most visible left-wing counterweight was the Netroots, which was basically a movement of centrist Democrats. The left flourishes when Democrats are in power, raising people’s political expectations. The Bernie Sanders movement is possible because, for young people, the notion of a liberal, urbane black president is a starting point rather than a miracle.
>I’m not interested in berating people who feel this way into changing their votes. Clinton can win without mobilizing the armed anarchist listeners of Democracy Now! People who believe that it would be “clarifying” if the “republic degenerates into tyranny,” as Ketcham does, probably should pull the lever for Trump; they are his natural constituency. I know these cosplay revolutionaries, to paraphrase Dave Weigel, don’t represent the real left. They’re certainly not the heroic people organizing fast-food workers or agitating to head off climate cataclysm. But a softer version of Ketcham’s sentiment is out there among the Bernie-or-Bust crowd; in March, the Guardian heard from 500 Sanders supporters who were considering voting for Trump over Clinton. It’s there, too, in the people on the left who are furious about the prospect of Elizabeth Warren joining Clinton’s ticket. Increasingly, a vocal part of the left is marked by its contempt for liberalism. The feeling is often mutual.
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How did they resist posting Trump with a meaner/uglier face?
Must have been a mixup.
>>76723582
>Its a "journalist throws around buzzwords they don't understand" article
there is no such thing as the real left in the US. Its all identity politics. It has stopped being about workers rights and now is about fag and mentally ill men rights. The left truly are burgeoius socialists who use this identity as signalling to others. Also socialism could never work in the US because we are way too materialistic. Socialism is meant to help people when shit hits the fan but in the US the insufferable bernie supporters seem to think it means free shit. In fact the self identified leftists are more materialistic than the right wing rednecks who champion capitalism.
>>76723582
(((Goldberg)))
>>76723582
I SMELL A COINCIDENCE
>>76723582
>Increasingly, a vocal part of the left is marked by its contempt for liberalism. The feeling is often mutual.
This is the future...
The two main options left:
Liberals vs Leftists...
![[receipts being checked in the distance].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/VYclCFJ.jpg "[receipts being checked in the distance].jpg")
>>76723582
>goldberg
>>76723582
>nihilism is bad
Doesn't matter.
>soon only the kikes will be left on the opposition of Trump
>full circle
>>76723682
My sides are gone.
That's fucking brilliant.
>>76723582
What a coincidence!
"Ash Ketchum cosplaying as Dave Wiggles don't represent the real left and Elizabeth Warren getting Clinton Wonka's golden ticket is gonna make the 500 spartan supporters angry, gotta stump them all".
Jesus Christ, it's like i'm grading a 7th grader's homework assignment and they used thesaurus.com to switch out some words.
>>76724026
the "left" bernie supporters are themselves fiscal liberals. They want free shit PLUS an iphone every year. They love capitalism and its lifestyle. They just want to be even more degenerate than the center "identified" liberals in social poltiics. Then again the defintion of liberalism the author is using is confusing since in America Liberalism means something different than the rest of the world. I am assuming he means liberalism as free market capitalism.
>>76723582
>GOLD
>BERG
Every. Fucking. Time.
>>76723853
Underrated
>>76723582
>politics is not your personal catharsis
>STAHP YOUR VOTE IS IMMORAL AND ANUDDA SHOA
Last time I checked its a fucking RIGHT for every American to cast their vote for ANY candidate for ANY reason and big nosed kikes can blow me.
>>76723582
>(((Goldberg)))
>>76723582
(((Goldberg)))
>>76723682
>>76723582
They are afraid of their own creation. They spent decades brainwashing our kids to become Socialists, and now they have realized they are out of their control.
>>76723582
Oh boy! What a coincidence!
>>76723582
Leftists SHOULD be for Trump. Those fucking Mexicans and Refugees that the democrats are bringing in are RIGHT WINGED PEOPLE.
Liberals are fools if they're gonna vote for Hillary.
>>76723582
WHERE ARE ALL THESE JEWS AND WHY DO I NEVER SEE THEM IN PUBLIC?
>>76723582
>the heroic people organizing fast-food workers
>>76723682
Fuark, why is /pol/ always right in the end?
>>76725443
Seriously, if Hillary gets elected, you can kiss that possibility of a socialist paradise goodbye you "feel the bern" commies.
>>76723853
Nice post.
