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| CosmicSex said: Most people are left they just don't realize it. There really isn't as much between people as politics would have you think. Being able to afford rising cost is left. Clean water and air is left. Getting medical care when you need it is left. Not starting is left. Freedom of speech and religion is left. Stopping corporations from stealing everything is left. Caring about people beyond your immediate circle is left. Science and objective reality is left. Education is far left. Not committing genocide is classically left. Everyone is left. The issue is that politics play with the words and definitions and the so called left and right in government don reflect actual people because we are a mix of both and acting like we have to completely seperate in order to get along is crazy. |
Yup, this. If post-modern people experienced life even as late as the Great Depression they'd go hard left.
The problem with the parliamentarian left was that it couldn't move beyond the center-left successes in electoral reform (to include working class people), social reform (to include workers rights and social benefits), etc to an even more forward-thinking vision. They just got stuck defending those gains they achieved in the post-war era rather than give a new vision of where society was headed.
Meanwhile the right created this fantasy of "what life was like before..." that was never a reality. We see this with, for example, the trad-wife delusion that women weren't civic and economic actors before modern times. Meanwhile, women were pretty much critical in helping manage the economic units that were familial subsistence farms and were heavily integrated in trades and guilds as well. The only areas where they didn't have a significant presence were physically demanding ones like blacksmithing.
The left needs to have a vision and story that is just as compelling as the right's palingenetic views. In the past this was marxism, but we have to move beyond marxism or reformulate it to fit the post-modern social reality if we want to have a compelling story.
