For me, it makes much more sense to think about it all as pop culture. I'll use America but this goes for any country.

The right leaning party represents pop culture. A dominant culture. The popular culture is American Apple pie and blue jeans with letter jackets.

The left represents everything outside the pop culture bubble. It's a larger population as a whole, but they're like little bubbles they all contain their own culture. Those cultures can conflict or merge and compliment each other. But they're individually separate.

The pop culture is always feeling threatened. It needs to maintain the status quo. Every outside sub culture is trying to fight their way into the dominant culture.

So this is why the right leaning voters trend towards rejecting things like immigrants, minorities, LGQTB and often other sub groups that are not wildly accepted by the pop culture. This is also why the left leaning groups do not. They trend towards infighting about how to do things but overall they all focus efforts on taking status away from the pop culture.

When I view politics as a clash between pop culture and sub cultures, it makes so much of it make so much more sense.

Which is also why I believe this is useful because it highlights how to win. Pop culture is much more sensitive to culture jamming. If anyone remembers 'yes men save the world' they were buried a bit, but they managed to fuck with so many things in pretty smart ways. You can really start to see how to focus efforts on them with this context I think at least.

It's a dubious place to be in. Those that believe in the system, and working within it...and the dangers of working outside of it...are realizing that there is no in-the-system countermeasure to those willing to work outside-the-system.

Those who believe in law and order can't use law and order to wrangle in...the majority of the "law" and "order" that are working in extra-legal and extra-ordinary ways.

Edit to add. We've been down this road before. Look at 1930s Germany. Not everyone was down with Dolfy. But we know how trying to fix it inside the system ended up.

Fun fact, I once alluded to this on reddit's worldnews and they associated me with Hitler because apparently trying to say there is more than one dimension is trying to whitewash Nazism.

Troll factories can get defensive, don't touch what they work with.

I'm always under the assumption that everyone can be an asshole. I had a very good friend qnd we're both vegans. To me it's just a dietary choice that i made, for her it was almost like a religion. Like when she met someone who was also a vegan or saw someone on tv that was a vegan, she always assumed that it's a good person, or just rooted for that person, no questions asked.

Liberals, as in advocates for liberalism and not a liberal party (which doesn't even exist in the USA), are the entire left of the USA.

centrists say everything is all progressives fault. But also that progressives will never be allowed to have any place of authority or decision making in the party. They'd sooner court republicans. So they will lose the youth vote for good and go extinct, assuming the country survives their idiocy at all.

Political polarization is a weapon, heard of the phrase "divide and conquer" They know how to churn up, scramble and disempower those on the side of anti-domination And that's why all Kulaks will get the bullet and the red empire must extinguish all alternative off the face of this planet and every other planet around all stars

Cue the speech at the end of Team America World Police

So peace was never an option

So it's accurate but they're both wrong because

1. He is the left.

2. He shouldn't even be trying to converse with literal USSR advocates and literal anarchists as if they were part of his base.