Big scary radical left agenda

 

The richest Americans get even richer

From Jake

If you want to know why the poor vote for extremists such as MAGA or Brexiteers of AfD, this is the reason.  Ordinary people in the West have not shared in the rise in GDP.  It's all gone to the richest.  And the Left has ditched them.   Neo-liberalism's end result has been the rise of right-wing parties, because the Left is too feeble and pusillanimous, too afraid of offending the upper classes, too pathetic to see -- or care -- just how the bottom half of the population has been screwed.

And until that changes, they --- and we  --- are going to go on losing.

People aren't moving right as they age, any more

 From a tweet by Matthew Sheffield

Millennials aren't moving rightward as they've aged, unlike Gen X, Boomers, & Silents. This is a good piece on the trend, but it doesn't note that the WW2 generation had a similar left loyalty. The common factor? Both gens got screwed by oligarchs.

https://archive.is/20221230225501/https://www.ft.com/content/c361e372-769e-45cd-a063-f5c0a7767cf4

My "far left" values

 I have been accused by a few of having "far left" values.  These are a few of the policies I support:

• Free health care for everybody;
• Millionaires and billionaires should pay fair tax;
• Monetary and fiscal policies should target low unemployment, not just low inflation;
• There should be excellent, free government schools, as there are in, say, Finland;
• We need to cut emissions fast, and not just rely on hopium;
• There should be a decent safety net for our poorest fellow citizens;
• Equal rights for all.

It doesn't strike me that these are even particularly left-wing.  And most people want something similar.  Which is why the Right has to make up lies about it, while using culture wars to drum up their votes.

A cartoon by Tom Toles

The 'radical' left

 

Left wingers vs right wingers

By cartoonist Tim Eagan