Comment on So, is the USA screwed?
some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 3 days ago
We’re on the way down. The Right in this country (well, really, everywhere, but it’s more maniacal here) are growing more unhinged. The Dems keep pulling to the right as a result (since at least the 80s). The overtone window keeps shifting. We’re absolutely fucked.
William F Buckley was a major source of inspiration for the Right for decades. I recently watched his debate with James Baldwin at Cambridge in 1965. He argued racist points about Black single moms, but he tried to sound compassionate and denounced racism. He hid his racism in plain sight but sounded educated. There’s nothing like that now. “They’re eating the dogs.”
LaLuzDelSol@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Kamala Harris and Biden before her ran on the most liberal platform in history
Skyrmir@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Bernie was more liberal, FDR ran and won 3 times on a more liberal platform.
LaLuzDelSol@lemmy.world 2 days ago
How did FDR feel about gay rights? Economically he was to the left but socially he was way to the right. Sanders, sure, but I meant in a general election.
Skyrmir@lemmy.world 2 days ago
He wasn’t against gay rights, would probably be the best description. He specifically avoided the topic while campaigning in order to avoid his earlier controversy entrapping men from the Navy by sending men out to have sex with them. Not because he hated gays, he was just given a job, and wasn’t against over doing it. Eleanor took a lesbian lover later on, and he hired a known gay man to serve in his cabinet. For the time, that’s about as progressive as it gets. In modern times, Gore was to the left of Obama and Biden socially.
BrainInABox@lemmy.ml 2 days ago
More. Gay. Drone. Pilots!
PanArab@lemm.ee 3 days ago
Genocide is a liberal position? Now you tell me?
conditional_soup@lemm.ee 3 days ago
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BrainInABox@lemmy.ml 2 days ago
Most neoliberal