Are you explaining yourself here?
You appear to be describing exactly what you are attempting to do when you smoosh populism into some amorphous blob of what you consider "left wing".
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You appear to be describing exactly what you are attempting to do when you smoosh populism into some amorphous blob of what you consider "left wing".
Do you think I'm saying populism is bad?
It's not an amorphous blob I'm creating, it's a conception of left and right with some consistency going back to the source of that terminology from the French Revolution. The right was for the monarchy, the left was for the Republic. One was for power with the people, one was subservient to the royalty and clergy. You cannot, no matter how hard you try, put populism on the right side of that spectrum. You may have an individual of populist thinking support other ideas you could place on the right side, but the populism itself is a left-wing idea. I'm not saying that is good or bad, it just is.
The internet's idea of left and right has no connection at all to the roots of the terminology, or to any history, or logic, or reason. It is an ever shifting, often contradictory purity test to decide who gets to sit in the cool kids club. If you have an individual that is libertarian, that is liberal in all social policies and anti-authoritarian, the internet says they're right wing cause they aren't socialist, and you have to be socialist to be in the cool kids club. If you have an individual who is a socialist, who wants universal healthcare, and housing, and food, and basic income, and all that jazz, but maybe they don't think trans is a real biological category, oops they're also right wing because you have to be pro-trans to be in the cool kids club. Maybe someone is the best of both of those, and supports all the communist dictates, and wants all the social justice, and should be left wing by every conceivable measure except they support Israel over Hamas, sorry, also right-wing, because you have to oppose Israel to be in the cool kids club.
I've said it many times, by any analysis of actual policies, the US is well onto the left side of the global political spectrum (yes, even including Europe). Liberal laws, high social spending, global leadership in all the left-leaning circles, but the US just has to be right-wing according to the internet, its the definition, because at this moment in history, you have to hate the United States to be in the cool kids club. That's the rule. And you're right, that idea of left and right is a quite useful representation of the real world in as much as its a forced perspective on the real world. You can see exactly who the hivemind hates (and wants you to hate) by what people call "right wing". That's their only rule.
Because American Christianity has nothing to do with God's love for all His people- He only loves the people who have created Him in their (and only their) image.
A Republican is calling for the deportation of the bishop who called for Trump to show mercy to immigrants and LGBTQ+ citizens.
www.newsweek.com
Is she actually a US citizen? Who cares?! If you criticize the Emperor, you gotta go!
Bishop who challenged Donald Trump should be deported, Republican says
Mariann Budde called for mercy toward immigrants and LGBTQ+ individuals during a prayer service.
www.newsweek.com
Is she actually a US citizen? Who cares?! If you criticize the Emperor, you gotta go!