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Biden's nor Harris are left wing. Clinton certainly isn't.
Obama, Harris, Biden and Clinton are all liberals.
A liberal is a centre-left winger who actually has a chance of winning.
Liberals are not left wing, the left starts at the abolition of capitalism. Without that they cannot back up any concept of equality or equity.
I think you’re confusing the left with far left idealists. “Right wing” and “left wing” are symbolic terms that once represented the right and left sides of the French National Assembly during the French Revolution.
So the “left” is referencing democrats/liberals, not anti-capitalists.
You might want to either co-opt a different term, or better yet- come up with something new.
No matter how much you liberals whine, you're not left wing. The left starts are the abolition of capitalism, as equality and equity cannot exist under capitalism.
As far as the origin of the term.... That's not how language works. It evolves over time. The liberals haven't been included in the left since you people appointed Hitler after instigating more than a decade of institutional violence against communists.
You're not left wing, you're the exclusive reason fascists have ever gained power.
ROFL! You’re just going to lean into the bullshit, eh?
Okay, well… here ya go:
https://www.history.com/news/how-did-the-political-labels-left-wing-and-right-wing-originate
Maybe co-opt a different term? Or better yet, come up with a brand new one. Just be sure to make it sound as ridiculous as your propaganda campaign has been.
Are you running an LLM with basically no tokens?
I addressed your appeal to history, what additional fallacy are you going to present to defend your left wing belief that Hitler is preferable to communism, an idea core to liberalism?
...and that's why you don't win.
That's fine, liberalism will be overthrown like it's sister ideology feudalism before it.
So the left will be overthrown is what you’re saying?
Liberals, the people that appointed Hitler, are not left wing.
Wow… are you a parody account?
Are you? Did you skip history class? Did you just not get taught how Hitler was appointed and why liberals felt he was the moderate choice that more closely aligned with them than the actual left wing people they were using state power to suppress?
Liberals didn't elect Trump, fascist, though. Does not compute.
Liberals also got the Civil rights Act of 1964 passed in Congress, despite MLK's prior Birmingham letter.
To equate American Democratic liberalism of today to German parties of the 1930s... Yeesh.
Afraid we are going for the torture nexus future.