Why do you lean left?

[theshep]

Arthritis in the right hip.

 

[Butcher Pete]

Because I want to push those precious diverse Pee-oh-Cees and faggots out of my neighborhood/city/kids’ school, but I don’t want anyone to hurt my feelings by calling me a bigot.

 

[The Lawgiver]

I literally do not follow standard political gridline faction shit yet people keep saying I "lean left" or they call me some sort of secret nazi. This is society now and I hate it.

 

[TruthSeekingDaimon]

My sexuality is rapefluid.
My gender is pedophille.
My race is eating children's fried brains.
My religion is to have anyone that does not like me dissolved in vats of acid. Peacefully.
Thats why I lean left.
I am the discriminated offended protected minority. White people bad. Capitalism bad.

 

[Strawberry Mirky Brend]

I lean left economically because workers need to be protected from exploitation by corporations and unregulated capitalism is a fucking shitshow for everyone but the elites.

I don't lean to the left socially because I'm not a retard with a victim complex that thinks skin color or sexual orientation is the most important thing about a person.

But there isn't an actual economically left wing party in America. There hasn't been for at least a decade after Obama fucked up recovering from the recession and they shifted to socially left identity politics as the brand to change the narrative and because Occupy Wall Street was too close to the truth.

 

[RMQualtrough]

I'm Libertarian. The existence of retards makes Libertarianism impossible in practice, but I still lean left to freedom, autonomy, and independence. Naturally I would, as I am a hermit and don't even vote.

Libertarianism is impossible because I would like literally everything to be legal if you don't harm others, but most people are genuinely semi Downs tier so would do something like swallow acid then chop people up shrieking about Jesus and demons.

Just to add I'm worth half a mil and own a business. Theoretically you'd expect me to lean right. But logically I just cannot say it is fair to have motherfuckers rolling around in Bugattis while some poor motherfuckers literally live diseased in mold in the same country. A balance is preferable. The right to life is fundamental, free healthcare is a must.

 

[GHTD]

Because three-letter agents glow so hard real right-wingers don't exist anymore.

 

[PlumSyrup]

Because social programs change lives. For example, I know someone whose husband fell off of the back of a truck while working and he became disabled as a result. Disability is barely any money, so his wife used a pell grant to go get a welding degree for free and now has a good job. She used to be a barista. Ironically, since the pandemic caused a lot of jobs to become remote, he's been able to actually find jobs he can do from home, and he now works at a call center, because it's better money than disability and he can do it without having to try to get to work. Thanks to programs like disability and food stamps and college grants for the poor, they're both gainfully employed in a way they wouldn't have otherwise been.

Users of this site are VERY familiar with the sort who abuse these programs, but living on welfare actually fucking sucks, and most people just need it to keep their lives stable for a little while. Few people WANT to live in section 8 housing or trying to live off of like $800/month in some cases. Or they need it because they actually can't work and will never able to, and they don't deserve to be homeless. It's really only the lolcows who can manage to be happy watching anime all day and living in grinding poverty. Everyone else either has no other option or it's just temporary while they get something else in place. And that's good for them and good for society imo.

I really don't care as much about all the social/interpersonal shit that makes its way into politics, I really don't care about rallying and protesting because a dude said "retarded" or something. I disagree with leftists on a LOT. I'm very pro-gun and anti-censorship. but I also can't bring myself to vote for someone who would make abortion illegal or cut WIC programs or try to teach kids about immaculate conception in school.

I used to be more of a leftist because I really care about civil rights, but, let's be honest, leftists don't actually care about hate crimes or anything like that, they care about having more bisexual black female characters on tv.

 

[Lemmingwise]

I lean populist right, because I've mostly always leaned in favor of the underdogs and the downthrodden. I leaned left when I still thought they were the underdogs.

 

[The Lawgiver]

I literally do not follow standard political gridline faction shit yet people keep saying I "lean left" or they call me some sort of secret nazi. This is society now and I hate it.

After a 3 year old thread got necroed I realized just how little has changed. Also it feels morelike last year than 3 years ago and that bothers the fuck out ofme.

 

[Dagoth AMOGUS]

I have to hand it to some users that are still lefty after so many years.

Granted the ones I’m thinking of are Jewish, female, or both, so that hardly counts.

But still, bold choice this day and age.

 

[starborn427614]

I have to hand it to some users that are still lefty after so many years.

Granted the ones I’m thinking of are Jewish, female, or both, so that hardly counts.

But still, bold choice this day and age.

I feel like the American left is very different, at least on average, to leftists/liberals in other countries. Way more overbearing, for example.

 

[Space Police]

Because the left are the only people who care about making sure everyone has a good life, not just the rich CEOs they're friends with. Trump would spit in the face of his average white trash supporter if his didn't have an image to keep up; so would most other Republicans. Any "Christian" values Republicans have are a whole song and dance to justify why they should be at the top and everyone else should be their dumb slaves. Why else would they tell young people not to go to school and get jobs instead?

 

[BetterFuckChuck]

I think conservatives raise better kids and are right about a lot of cultural shit being retarded, but I tend to get more money when liberals are in office from union benefits, pensions, the dole, etc.

 

[just Reading a post]

Because the left are the only people who care about making sure everyone has a good life

Unless your a straight white man. Then you can go to hell. That was the message they sent out. So you have to figure out why, they would do such a silly thing as alienate the white men.
Personally i lean left on a lot of issues such as abortion. Because i am still pro freedom. But i will not break bread with people who have proven, they hate me. They have infiltrated my media, telling me that i should not have it. They have infiltrated the workplace, to tell me i do not deserve it. They have infiltrated relationships, telling wives to hate their husbands. Their "message" caused them to lose me.
The left left us normal people behind, so i have 0 choice but to vote with the right.

 

[WelperHelper99]

The left is for mentally ill retards that don't understand economics

 

[Dagoth AMOGUS]

I feel like the American left is very different, at least on average, to leftists/liberals in other countries. Way more overbearing, for example.

It differs in every country. But Canada, that’s the closest example to a unified international sort of leftism I have observed.

I was about to try and psychoanalyze your average Canadian but that’s pointless. Leftism is not a belief system, but a personality quirk. One that can be grating, insufferable, or overbearing like you said. People rarely change unless there is a very dramatic, or even traumatic, experience that compels them to do so. I don’t hold it against them. Once you reach a certain age, that’s pretty much it. You cannot fill an already-filled cup, or so the saying goes.

 

[SentinentCloud]

never did

my gradfather started the fmaily tardition of terminating commies on the basement of military bases and one day i hope to keep the fmaily tradition going

 

[grimacefetishist]

Osteoporosis

 

[Agamemnon Busmalis]

I'm very far left on economic issues but also very socially conservative and nationalist at the same time. The economy and society exist solely to benefit the people as a whole and the well-being of the community and nation outweighs that of the individual

This is a rare combination these days but was a lot more common in times past.