• Maggoty@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    What do you think a liberal is? I didn’t claim he was progressive or anything leftist.

    I’m sitting here watching city council after city council enact homeless bans after the SCOTUS ruling, no matter who they say they are. And I’m supposed to take your word that special, far enough left, Democrats don’t support this? No. I’m not going to ignore the evidence right in front of my eyes. What’s happening on homelessness in this country is disgusting.

    And if I’m coming across as disingenuous, what must you be with the “No True Scotsman” fallacy towards anti-homeless Democrats?

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      2 months ago

      You guys are arguing semantics. This is a conservative vs. progressive situation (which you both seem to agree on) and the Dem party is overrun with conservatives (neoliberals).

      We should stop referring to Dems and “liberals” and instead refer to conservatives or progressives. The two of you agree substantially on this topic and are effectively arguing about flavors of conservative at this point.

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        2 months ago

        Liberals and conservatives absolutely have different ideologies. People won’t stop voting for liberals until we correctly assign blame to them rather than pass it off as a conservative thing.

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      Well if the liberals consider you a moderate then perhaps that is saying something. I think we can agree he is a poor example.

      You can believe whatever you want. You are clearly passionate about this topic which is good. Look at the people in communities pushing for this. It is always the business every time and the solution is to always push them out.

      You need to turn your anger towards those that are causing the problem. Your arguments the liberals are either A complacent or B accomplices both have some truth to them. This isn’t the problem though.

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        2 months ago

        At the end of the day the voters are the problem. We didn’t show up with signs and fire them at the next election. Maybe this is the wake up call this issue needed

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          2 months ago

          True. If the voters demand real progressives (instead of the conservative neoliberal business-class insiders the Dems always run) the party might actually become progressive.