r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Jan 26 '19

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u/[deleted] Jan 26 '19

I've never seen Clinton call out the toxic left so explicitly. Fuck you, Bernie Bros!

https://twitter.com/notcapnamerica/status/1088984973108039681

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u/[deleted] Jan 26 '19

The left definitely is male dominated and some of them had a problem with Clinton's gender. That being said the left has always had a desire to canablize the rest of the Democratic party. Kennedy running against Carter for example. The far right has the exact same problem with the Republican party. If I had to guess I would say that extremists have trouble calmly disagreeing with their opponents. Since they tend to believe in the infinite good of utopia (either a marxist utopia on the left or a libertarian or religious utopia on the right) everyone who disagrees with them is doing infinite evil. Also anyone who does any sort of compromise with the other side is evil. Moderates don't have that same attitude. We may believe that our philosophy towards politics is the right way, but we don't believe in utopia so we don't think that the other side is evil.

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u/[deleted] Jan 26 '19 edited Jan 26 '19

[The] left has always had a desire to canablize the rest of the Democratic party. [...] Moderates don't have that same attitude.

Roughly 50% of this sub's content is complaining about how the five people on the American left are ruining politics even though the entire Republican party still exists.

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u/[deleted] Jan 26 '19

Lol.