I didn’t leave the left. The left, left me.

[GenerativeAIBot]

Stop me if you have already heard this the last few days, I am trying to make sense of how I feel about Trump and other right leaning wins:

“Woke” issues being pushed to where they have been, has empowered the right by giving them something real and legitimate to campaign against. Something more than their usual transparently false bogeymen.

In general, Authoritarianism, compelled speech, no debate. Specifically men in women’s sports, in women’s changing rooms, unfettered immigration, being asked to ignore the evidence in front of our eyes.

This is happening across the world, Italy, France, Germany, USA, UK.

I remain entirely committed to progressive taxation, a social safety net, collective bargaining, workers rights, public schooling and health services as well as the rights of everyone to live contented, unmolested lives.

I reject identity politics in their entirety. For example, I consider terms like “Woman of colour” to be the epitome of divisive, racist, sexist thought patterns that seeks to infantilise people and move their locus of control from internal to external. Disempowering people and making them victims.

I didn’t leave the left. The left left me.

Reasonable?

The targets are fantasy.
Too expensive for normal people and the EV cars don’t last, create different pollution & are clearly “mis selling”

It’s “ bad cars! “. Tax and ticket and ban. Yet look at all the throw-away clothes, throw away elec cars& tech. Stupid rainbows wastefully painted on the streets. Too much money spent on signals - cheap flags. Badges etc and not enough fixing on what is really wrong.

It’s all Virtue Signaling and no reality checking.

Our council spent stupid money on rainbow tat that should have been spent or education or disability. They will do it ever year - gleefully ordering the rainbow tat thinking it makes a difference. It doesn’t.

You don’t sound like you were ever reasonable enough to have been on the left in the first place

The OP sounds very reasonable to me.

People on the same political spectrum tend to agree with each other. This is not rocket science.

That’s a cheap shot, but then that’s why you are not Wernher von Braun.

Well done for illustrating my point.

It's not a 'cheap shot' - it's a simple fact.

Agree 💯. Wise post. It would be good if Labour were listening (though I won’t hold my breath).

Belittling all those who would agree with each other.

OK.

Voted yabu but I meant yanbu. It's how increasing numbers of people feel. Although it's also worth remembering that with the high gen Z vote for Trump, there is a generation people that feel like the left was never there for them as from there perspective,things were always this way. So it will be very interesting to see how that filters through going forward.

How is what I said belittling? I thought lefties were meant to be the snowflakes. Pointing out that people of the same political persuasion agree with each other is belittling...

I'm top 5% on income personally.

I believe that money attracts money, generally and that people are disadvantaged by being born into poverty, generally, therefore steps should be taken to improve opportunities for all via education, etc etc. Though, I must say, without a boast, that I was born into sub working class poverty, and now I am not.

Because that's not how you intended your comment.

We're at a point in our society where we still need to ask "what do you mean by woman?" And once we don't, I will assume some level of normality will resume.

I am however still seeing nonsense in form options.

Yet again..."the Left" this, "the Left" that.

Well, I'm "the Left", to the point that I went out door knocking for Corbyn in 2017 and 2019, and neither I or anybody else had any interest in- or even, to my recollection, raised- the question of rights for trans people, pronouns, any of what you'd term "woke nonsense". Because nobody cared.

On the doorsteps we talked about stuff like renationalisation of public utilities, making sure large corporations paid their taxes, benefits, the NMW, the economy, second homes, the economy, green issues, the NHS, and the economy again.

Outside your bizarre right-wing bubble, nobody gives a shit about your "woke trans nonsense". It's utterly fabricated outrage.

Tricky, but, failing to meet net zero is a lack vision and action as far as I can see. China, bizarrely will reach it way before we do because they run a dictatorship (no I don't want one at all). The fundamental intent of NetZero, is a positive one, I can plainly see Climate Change is real, and we are the cause, getting to Net Zero seems the only way of slowing things and wholesale planetary engineering the only way of fixing it.

For example, the price of solar panels and electricity storage has plummeted by more than 95% in the last 20 years. We are perfectly capable of utilising that price technology, yet we are not.

But I feel this is taking us off subject somehow!

It's exactly what I said and meant. How you choose to interpret it has nothing to do with me.

Sounds an awful lot like what Bernie said last week. However - you may find that in the last 7 years, the transgender and immigration issue has got a lot bigger in peoples minds. Every time a nurse or a school girl is forced to share a room with a male - or an asylum seeker attacks someone, it gets bigger,not smaller.

Totally reasonable, op. The left gave up on representing the concerns of the working class and took up the self congratulatory role of cultural leaders puffed up on postmodern academic narratives of self and identity.

🙌🏻 I think I shall put that on a t shirt

That’s a shame for you

True, the age thing is interesting

Btw I think you can just click on yanbu and it'll switch your vote

Your OP reflects exactly how I feel. I am politically homeless. I wouldn't have voted in the last election but I now live in Scotland and had to vote tactically to help rid the country of the SNP, mostly for the reasons the OP stated.

Do you think the Right was 'captured' by the left and that's why they jumped in feet first with gender ideology?

In the words of the absolute legend, John Lyndon...

"I never thought I'd live to see the day when the right wing would become the cool ones, giving the middle finger to the establishment, and the left wing becoming the snivelling self-righteous twatty ones going around shaming everyone".

I think that about sums it up for me OP.