Compromise

[Strike For The South]

Shifting in the subject of compromise, this essay points out that the Sanders/Corbyn movements have assimilated the far-left to the center more so than the other way around, creating a sort of 'big-tent' socialism in public discourse that is closer to mid-century progressivism than to Marxism - and yet that this is also what has made "socialism" so much more accessible for people today.


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Great use of meme tho

This is what makes Ocasio-Cortez so fascinating. Her interviews on NPR and her Kaisch like pro small business tweets are reminiscent of old school democrats. Yet the DSA claims her? I suppose it's the truth. By her own admission the DSA were the ones on the ground organizing things and that is what attracted her to them. Fair play.

Really it is more illustrative of how frighteningly rightward this country has drifted since Nixon. A lot of what She is saying are the same things LBJ talked about when he envisioned the great society 50 years ago. And that was LBJ, you know, Hey hey how many kids did you bomb today. decidedly not a DSA member lol.

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The next generation of leftism in America is starting to learn that it cannot trade economics for culture or vice versa. We need both a left that both checks corporate greed and fights for legal gay marriage. Without both they are vulnerable to losing it all, which is really what we are looking at now.

50+ years of political correctness that made America a more tolerant nation could be wiped out in 5-10 if Trumpism wins out.

[Beskar]

Saw this and thought of this topic.

[Montmorency]

Brevity.

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[rory_20_uk]

John Oliver's analagy was: sometimes compromise doesn't make any sense - such as with vaccines, or eating a bar of soap. Just because one side wants to do it, the compromise position of eating half a bar is still stupid.

The fact these days we have to view everyone and everything (yes, there are exceptions but they seem to be decreasing) as equally valid is the problem since there is the "logic" that the alternative is that all freedoms will be removed. Female Genital Mutilation is wrong. I don't care about what your horrible culture says about this - this is more evidence that it is a lesser culture.