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• finitebanjo@piefed.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I wouldn't say so, I'm a consequentialist so when I see a pedophile felon in the white house removing the 14th amendment while not a single GOP congressman opposes him, I feel like the entirety of the US right is effectively gone and only the far right remains.

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  • JcbAzPx@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The right is sill around. They just have a ‘D’ next to their name.

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    • finitebanjo@piefed.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Ah yeah sure, taxing the rich, removing money from politics, making healthcare and bodily autonomy a human right, all such right ideals. /sarcasm

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      • Obi@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I don’t think any of this happened last time the democrats were in charge? Or any other time before that. Seen from Europe, democrats are definitely right of center, just less so than republicans.

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      • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        That’s what the democratic socialists and social democrats want, sure.

        The rest of the Democrats call them radicals and Hakeem Jeffries just told them to leave the party.

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• Gold_E_Lox@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  the one’s who do the bad shit and the one’s who support it. sure if thats enough difference for you ig

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• Juice@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  In many cases, I think so. People everywhere get their morality from culture. Since many people are raised conservative, and risk damaging their social connection in their community by straying from conservative values, people can be very protective of certain social conventions and perspectives, out of fear of social isolation or even alienating themselves from their actual nature in order to adhere to social convention.

  Its an understatement to say that the far right/fascism weaponizes this fact. But many many conservatives are workers which means that they share lived exploitation with the rest of us. Capitalism is the force that divides the working class, and when we participate in divisive/sectarian tendencies then whatever ideology we claim, leftist or whatever, then we are carrying water for the billionaire class.

  Its not always that simple though. Many people experience real trauma by having conservative values thrust upon them. Objective morality is a plague, but so is dualism. We need to think completely differently and work with others to navigate these dynamics

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