If anything I have become convinced right wing conservativism and some type of leftism to be the only two legitimate viewpoints. Liberalism, which is centrism, Clinton, Bush, etc. is a vacuous position. I say this as a Trump voter, but Marxism, Maoism, etc are reasonable beliefs. I would much rather read bell_shakur talk about how mayosapiens need to be enslaved or killing troops is good than some batshit liberal talk about how Elizabeth Warren is Harry Potter or whatever. I’ve started reading Nietzsche, and some Marx.
I might even read some ....ugh... *french philosophy* like Foucault or Beauvoir because it turns out most of your “faves” don’t know the first thing about feminism/leftism. Even Valerie Solanas, who probably did actually hate men, would not be as banal and annoying as the average twitter “feminist” complaining about “men in the menchies” or whatever. It’s just so absurd, so fucking dumb. You either think America is good or it isn’t. I don’t trust liberals to tell me anything about the world, about politics, about crises, because clearly they had no fucking idea what was going on. Their worldview is nonsense, Obama the Peacemaker, America the Great, Trump the Traitor. Which is it??? How can Trump be unAmerican is racism *really* is that ingrained in society? If killing brown people for trivial reasons really is bad then how is America good when thats all it does overseas? Conservatives say “imperialism is good actually, I love drones”, leftists say of course it’s all bad, only liberals have no fucking clue what’s going on.
You could say the same thing about capitalism, or anything really. Conservatives think that if you don’t work, you shouldn’t get healthcare. You should have to work for your stuff. Alright, that’s reasonable. Leftists say no, thats ridiculous, just give all people healthcare no strings attached, What then of the people who oppose Medicare for All or single payer, but also hate conservatives? What... what do they actually believe? It really is the RaDIcaL CenTRIsT “just a little genocide”. However Bob, imo, doesn’t care or understand any of this, and is truly ruled by his highschool teenage angst.
In a world where I was allowed to not have the histrionic emotional reactions to bad shit (like the George Floyd thing, seriously watch the video its bad) without being called a sociopath, and allowed to ask questions (question that, it turns out philosophers were answering) I would be a leftist.
