If you're angry with the left and vote right, you ain't left to begin with.

The right revolt all the time, maga, the libertarian movement, and the tea party all sent the politicians falling over eachother to try to be what they thought the base wanted.

Republicans fear their voters, democrats despise their voters.

LMFAO sure buddy

The crucial thing to remember about leopards is that when they decide to eat your face, it's not a betrayal. It's a leopard, it doesn't grasp the concept of betrayal. You have a face, and it eats faces. It is simply that time of day, and you picked a bad place to be.

Lol republicans fear their own terrorist, fascist actions.

Betrayed by the Left

If you used a rightwing compass to define your politics, you probably weren't “left” to begin with.

You're probably confusing a liberal.

Probably. But I attribute it to there being less ideological dissonance between the republicans donors and voters and democrats donors and voters.

Republicans can tell their base they're going to hurt everybody to make the rich richer and they'll accept it if they blame oppressed people and foreigners. Democrats have to lie to their base and come up with excuses for why they are hurting everyone to make the rich richer.

I’m tired of Americans calling left of far right to be left. Left of far right is still right you know.

Both should be tiny dogs

We know. Everyone knows. It's just how we refer to the Democratic Party here. At this point, I think the only people who don't know the difference are the ones wouldn't care to make the distinction in the first place. Getting upset over it makes about as much sense as getting upset at British people for calling a sweater a jumper.

Nobody ever went right because they were "betrayed" by the left. That's like going gay because of a bad breakup. Most people who legitimately feel betrayed by the left go further left.

What the right does cultivate is false grievance against the left. And this "walkaway" narrative is fake news.

Literally doesn't matter when we have 2 parties and one of them is to the left of the other

Republicans fear their voters

Not anymore. After the tea party shenanigans, Republicans realized it was easier to use mass media to program people on what to hate, and keep them distracted.

Use “liberal” and see how that goes.

Which is ironic since the TEA party was a Faux News creation.

Yeah but it's silly to call democrats the right-left-wing and republicans right-right-wing and maga right-right-right-wing

A bunch of republicans lost primaries and generals because the party let insurgents meaningfully challenge them and didn't burn down the house the way the dems react to DSA obtaining power.

That sadly only works for the limited number of people with a working brain.

The amount of idiots that vote far-right to get the left policies the left never in power did thus not deliver is insane. Those people will also scream in your face about fake news or even get aggressive if you read straight from their populist party's programs, because the brain rot they consume says otherwise.

You'd be talking about the right wing party in my case (Australia - the Liberals are the conservative choice)

Yeah. And in America it’s the opposite. But our favorite Lemmyleft will see them, and talk about them, as the same. To exciting effect. (And they have reasons, you see)

And so we have this conversation again. And round and round it goes.

That Overton window yo

I think that's Cheems

Is this meme really trying to say empathy is a bad thing?

I will never vote right but some of the leftists I've met irl are the most insufferable cunts you can imagine. Definate difference in people who don't like the status quo and the other who want to impose their "perfect economy system" on everyone with no regard of how that would actually work or look. Like lefty magas

I know that my ideal system I'd want to see will not happen in my life. I wish to plant the trees so others may enjoy their shade.

We could use:
MAGA Fascists
Republicans
Centrist Dems

It's more like the actual leftists don't really vote, so the democrats don't cater to them. The corporate wing of the party actively tries to push them out.
If the leftists got organized and started voting out dems in the primary these people would change their tune.

If you pay enough attention, you will notice that the difference between extreme right and extreme left is only in the politics they worship. They are the same.

Remember, the non-extreme on both sides generally want similar outcomes, but seek them through differing ideologies. Both are likely part right and part wrong.

Then there are the other non-extreme ones that have an agenda of self-enrichment and are their own variety of evil.

I personally believe more (not all) of those lean right, but I acknowledge I am influenced by my own political point of view.

That is not entirely true. The Reagan revolution was composed of disillusioned Democratic voters. Most of MAGA comes from this group.

The problem is they were low information voters and did not realize the Reagan coalition was the primary cause of their distress. Then FOX news and AM radio radicalized them.

... In coalition with the Koch brothers, who were the primary financial backers of the movement.

They were all backed by billionaires like the Koch brothers. They don't make their own judgments. They believe what they are told by those they trust.

Leftists are like cats. Try getting them to move as a group, I dare you. This is the core of the problem. Ironically individualist intellectualism breeds weakness by discouraging team work.

They tend to be willing to die on their individual hills rather than build coalitions that require compromising their values.