No war but class war

Turns out leftist policies are really really popular if you don’t tell people they’re “leftist”

What do you think the left versus right is? Conservativism is about preventing change and when it happens preserving “tradition” which includes traditional hierarchies.

Leftism is about reducing or ending hierarchies explicitly.

That is literally what left vs. right is. Working class vs. the rich. It has always been that.

So the right is now suddenly in favor of a labor movement? Last I heard they were busy dick riding billionaires.

Every congresscritter, no matter their side of the aisle, has far more in common with their fellow congresscritters than with their constituents. They attend the same galas, eat at the same restaurants, eventually send their kids to the same schools.

“I can hire one half of the working class to kill the other half.”
Robber baron Jay Gould

As true today as it was when he said it in the 19th century.

But the poor people side with the rich because they don’t want to openly admit to being poor or to themselves and are afraid of handicapping themselves because they think they’ll get rich. Obviously not everyone but I definitely feel like it’s out there.

Hey Conservatives, lefty here. I’m up for a truce if we wanna take down the oligarchy. We can yell at each other over woke shit after. Can’t fix any of our problems without kicking the oligarchy to the curb. Who’s down?

That used to mean the same thing, but then we had decades of propaganda and here we are

It’s time to stop “punching” our neighbors to the left and right and start “punching up,” *Metaphorically,* of course

YES!! We’re finally starting to get the point. The first domino has fallen and the tapestry will continue to burn.

The biggest lie the right wing fascists foisted upon the american public is that his is a war about culture, and not economics.

Pedophiles and rapists vs. people who don’t actively vote for pedophiles and rapists

But there absolutely is a left v right in the sense of even remedying class differences have different solutions. Especially gradualistic or revolutionary, proper procedure or civil disobedience, etc.

I’m glad everyone’s having this realization… about seven months too late.

Always has been. Media is engineered hate towards each other to advert attention away from the real enemy, the super rich who exploit the avg person.

This is stupid

What I’ve been going on for years now as an ex-conservative. We want the same shit and we’re both economically the same.

It’s just conservatives gobble up the bullshit propaganda about pronouns, BLM/CRT/DEI, feminism, and whatever else that has actual positive effects on their lives that they don’t realize and vote for the people shoving that propaganda so that they can keep them distracted with a “culture war” instead of a class war.

Yes but forget Drake. That guys a creep.

The middle class of people with nothing but a high school diploma is mostly gone. We now have a huge segment of the population that “self-identifies as middle class”. They really live paycheck to paycheck, and most “self-identifying middle class” people couldn’t afford a $2,000 emergency without using a credit card with 25%+ interest.

>Terminology differs in the United States, where the term middle class [in the US] describes people who in other countries would be described as working class.

Most “middle class” people in the US would be referred to as the working poor in other parts of the world. They have no real liquid or semi-liquid savings, no potential to save, and the slightest bit of elevated inflation wipes out decades of gains for them, while giving them nothing (they have no assets that inflate). They don’t own appreciable assets.

It’s a mass delusion in our country, where people have to lie to themselves about their financial position… because acknowledging the truth would mean acknowledging the fact that their economic freedom is declining, from generation to generation.

Oh, and telling people what they need to do to adapt is just rude. You’re supposed to lie to them, and say “I’m sure it’ll get better.” (It won’t. It’ll get worse.)

The difference between left and right isn’t really about who they hate and what they want. We agree on that. It’s really about who they think they can trust: poor people and hippies vs white men and billionaires.

Always has been, unfortunately the poors love them some Trump

People keep saying this but what should people give up to join in class solidarity?

Should they compromise their views on abortion? LGBTQ-related issues? Immigration? Gun rights? And which way should the compromise go?

The Left needs the Right to preserve what works and push back against unnecessary change where it isn’t needed.

The Right needs the Left to push for change where things don’t work and progress us into a better tomorrow.

We should fight against those that seek to poison the very ground beneath our feet for something as petty as more riches. We are not enemies.

One of the greatest political achievements was convincing people leftist policies are for the rich and by the rich.