Wtf is "the left"
I do my best to avoid the generalizations that are aimed at dividing and destroying this country.
The average Republican voter is a good person who loves this country and wants it to be successful regardless of what party controls congress and WH.
The average Democrat voter is a good person who loves this country and wants it to be successful regardless of what party controls congress and WH.
I honestly believe that. Perhaps this is the worst place for me to talk politics. I enjoy conversations about politics and current events.
There are extremes. Sometimes politicians play into those extremes. Most of us cringe when that happens. Most of us also become biased when that happens.
Regardless, 11 Days
The Left used to be known as "Liberals" until they turned that word into a pejorative. Then they adopted "Progressive."
The defining feature of the Left is the use of government to gain their political ends. People are irrelevant except to vote them into power. Government is the tool that should control essentially, well,
everything for the Left. This is necessary because the guiding idea of the left is literal equality. Everyone is the same. Individual Rights only exist where they can be used equally. That means say in "free" speech only speech that is equal can be allowed. No dissention, no contrary ideas because that would remove the equality of speech.
If you want to sum them up in a word, it's altruistic. The Progressive Leftist thinks that people will willingly give up economic and personal gain to let those less capable have equality with them in all things. It's the "Participation" trophy idea. There is no reward for being smarter or working harder within the ideas of the Progressive Left. Doing more is rewarded with confiscation and redistribution while doing less is rewarded with undeserved wealth and praise.
This is why the Left wants things like universal healthcare run by the government. That means everyone gets the same level of care (in theory) even if that level is crappy due to society moving towards the least common denominator. A bigger minimum wage is another. In fact, they'd rather see everyone get the
same wage regardless of what they do or don't do (universal income idea).
These positions are extremes and have proven repeatedly for over a century to bring nations to ruin. The Left hasn't had a single success with their ideas. All they do is repackage them and try to fool a society into accepting them one more time because they
know that this time, unlike every past failure, it will work.
The Progressive Left for this same reason wants to erase or turn to fiction history. The unflattering truth about Leftist ideas has to be covered up or nobody would accept them.
That's a short answer. You can find plenty of Progressive Leftists willing to openly talk about what they want. Sure, they try to make it sound wonderful but forced altruism by government force only ends in a dictatorship of virtue and everybody suffers for it.
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