Makes sense. Could they possibly privately be mad? I also was a lefty but I've been out for years. I've tried telling people you can't possibly appease your friends if the rules change every day but as you probably know they will just have to see it themselves and walk away.
In my experience lefties who won't conform to the ever changing rule book tend to get red-piled and leave the fold. The lefties that stay believe every new piece of doctrine that comes down from NPR on high. I was a far leftist but never got on board with political correctness/feminism/identity politics. As a woman, I could get away with edgy statements a little longer than a man could have in my position but eventually I realized that the left and I no longer had anything in common. I'm not even in touch with any of my college friends. I was a populist concerned with hegemonic power exercised by the elites - this is no longer an issue leftists care about and all my friends just followed the leader as the rules changed. Obama got in bed with big business and that was that.
Populists are populists we should be on the same side. Trumpers are populists as well. While we disagree with some of the end goals I always thought we should be together as far as getting bug business out. It really stinks that this didn't happen. Identity politics is a huge problem, when you start to tie identity to anything you can convince people to do things that aren't in their best interest. I never really bought into it though I could always see how advertisers were attaching identity to cars and stuff it never really worked on me.
Makes sense. Could they possibly privately be mad? I also was a lefty but I've been out for years. I've tried telling people you can't possibly appease your friends if the rules change every day but as you probably know they will just have to see it themselves and walk away.
In my experience lefties who won't conform to the ever changing rule book tend to get red-piled and leave the fold. The lefties that stay believe every new piece of doctrine that comes down from NPR on high. I was a far leftist but never got on board with political correctness/feminism/identity politics. As a woman, I could get away with edgy statements a little longer than a man could have in my position but eventually I realized that the left and I no longer had anything in common. I'm not even in touch with any of my college friends. I was a populist concerned with hegemonic power exercised by the elites - this is no longer an issue leftists care about and all my friends just followed the leader as the rules changed. Obama got in bed with big business and that was that.
Populists are populists we should be on the same side. Trumpers are populists as well. While we disagree with some of the end goals I always thought we should be together as far as getting bug business out. It really stinks that this didn't happen. Identity politics is a huge problem, when you start to tie identity to anything you can convince people to do things that aren't in their best interest. I never really bought into it though I could always see how advertisers were attaching identity to cars and stuff it never really worked on me.
Yeah, identity politics is just a tool the elites are using to try to lock down their feudalist system.