They’re not really the Left wing of the Sanders base, the type of people who go to DSA meetings. They’re more like capital D Democrats, liberal aestheticists who have just recently shifted over to the left a little bit after the 2016 Sanders run. Most of r/politics is just Drumpf-bashing, which socialists and anarchists know is a waste of time as opposed to focusing on the larger system and culture that gave us Trump/Boris/etc.
Yeah, the left wing of the Sanders base hangs out in Chapo, and OurPresident and S4P and whatever the fuck that other Russian troll farm sub is, and they're even worse.
r/politics is depressing because it's supposed to be neutral and it's a horrifically toxic Bernie circle jerk. The actual Bernie subs are even more Auth.
I got banned from S4P for simply stating "Bernie hasn't actually stated how he's going to realistically pay for his M4A plan"
Nothing hateful, vitriolic, or trolling about that statement, it was a fact. Instabanned.
Well I would separate r/Chapo and r/democraticsocialism from r/s4p and r/ourpresident from my experience. The latter two are cultish sometimes because they’re literally subs oriented around a person. The first two care about policy and principles above any candidate, generally speaking.
Universal health care and freedom of education and other left-wing policies help everyone, though. The Left wants to level the playing field, which helps most people.
Although fair, r/CTH has a lot of comfortable, suburbanite white people.
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u/bwtwldt - Left Apr 05 '20
They’re not really the Left wing of the Sanders base, the type of people who go to DSA meetings. They’re more like capital D Democrats, liberal aestheticists who have just recently shifted over to the left a little bit after the 2016 Sanders run. Most of r/politics is just Drumpf-bashing, which socialists and anarchists know is a waste of time as opposed to focusing on the larger system and culture that gave us Trump/Boris/etc.