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    9 months ago

    The right sees themselves on top. That’s the whole basis of their worldview, whether they expressly know it or not – they’re the privileged class in the “natural order.” Actually, some of them are on the bottom too, but are being deceived by those at the top with false promises that they can be there too (these are the people I’m mostly interested in reaching - the only cure for the people on top is … uh … being redacted, let’s say).

    People identifying as left is tricky. Most of us end up at the bottom for not playing their sick games (anarchists, socialists, etc.), though I’d add layers to the bottom rung. There’s a vast difference between the marginalization a communist feels for being discriminated against for a political philosophy vs. what a LGBTQ+ person or BIPOC feels for their whole identity.

    But it gets complicated because neoliberals often think of themselves as “left” but they are in reality centrists. Every time a liberal compromises with the right, they are positioning themselves exactly where you see the centrist in the picture. It’s why they act baffled when they get called out for signing off on things like the fascist border policy or sending arms to a genocidal state because in their minds of course we need to cOmPrOmIsE, and people who are harmed by that compromise be damned! Won’t somebody think about the campaign!!! If we criticize them, then it’s because we just “don’t know how the world works” or we are “young, and we’ll grow out of it” (I’m nearly half a century old, and I only get more convinced I’m right lol).

    Mostly speaking from a US perspective, since that’s where I live.