If you're not left-wing at 20, you have no heart.
If you're not right-wing at 30, you have no brain.
If you're not right-wing at 25, you have no brain.
and my favorite addition
If you're still under the belief that both parties aren't the same people by 30, you're clinically retarded.
Seriously it's not even a left/right plurality in the United States anymore. It's the same people, they speak about different things and pretend to hate each other. However, when it comes down to the ground truth, it's not about liberalism vs. conservatism. It's really about the political and donor class vs. everybody else strung along for the ride.
Muh abortion rights
Bullshit, it would have happened no matter what. Democratic leaders had decades to codify it into law and didn't. The Supreme Court would have taken a more conservative slant regardless of who sits in the oval office. It was politically useful to pander to both the progressives and evangelical/religious voting bloc but it was losing steam. Allowing Roe to fall actually helped their case, everyone wins political points. I'm not going to argue for or against abortion, but the strategy of allowing Roe to be overturned was worth noting.
Muh social welfare
Remember that time when we let the money jews do all of the things that caused the great depression and allowed the banks to become overleveraged on bad mortgage debt? Remember how the Federal government came to the rescue, bailed out all of those bad mortgages, people weren't evicted for being retarded, the protections were put back in place, and said money jews went to federal prison for life and/or were forced to pay restitution equal to the amount of damage they caused? Huh, me neither.
Muh stop the spread, social distancing, fight COVID at all costs
Wow, oppressive censorship is suddenly okay now. We have to keep those pesky citizens from thinking the right of free expression also applies to the internet. The bill of rights was written before the internet or telephones existed! The founding fathers didn't want people to have uncontrolled weapons of communication and expression! If they could see what's happening today, they would have set up a special ministry to decide what is truthful and what isn't!
See where I'm going with this...
Also, I guess we'll bail out all of the businesses we just doomed to failure. I guess we'll throw the peasants $2,000 or whatever too. That'll be enough to buy groceries and pay bills for a year, right? Said some crotchety old fuck in congress, who hasn't worked a day doing anything useful since the Nixon administration, if ever. We'll be happy to buy your house back when you ultimately foreclose on it. We've got some friends that want to turn your house into a rental property. They also wear tiny hats, no idea what the tiny hats are for.
I could go on, but yes, I was more left-leaning in my early adult life. Then shifted once I realized unchecked progressivism is destabilizing to society and needs to be regulated with objective criticism. All the way up until I realized that America as previous generations knew it was effectively dead. We're just persisting on past glory and economic successes of the previous century. Once the uniparty and their masters have pilfered the last of the state coffers and extracted anything valuable from the people and taken all of the natural resources, they'll leave it to rot and the United States will collapse, just like the USSR 30+ years ago.
It's a dark take on American politics, but I honestly think it needs to happen and whatever comes afterward will hopefully be better for everyone.
Or it won't, but it won't matter. Just be sure that you can look out for yourself and don't worry about the future.
