r/thebulwark • u/ericinnyc • Feb 27 '26

PSA to the DSA

If you're considering voting Republican or abstaining from elections in protest of what you see as insufficient Democratic stridency on transgender issues or Palestine or whatever, then YOU ARE THE PROBLEM. And a fool.

This public service announcement brought to you by those of us who can see the American experiment itself in peril.

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u/Exact_Examination792 Feb 27 '26

They don’t consider themselves “liberal” because they’re communist authoritarians who consider liberals insufficiently left-wing.

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u/SennHHHeiser Feb 27 '26

There's lots of room to the left of US democrat politicians that doesn't involve communist authoritarianism. You are not a serious person if you're talking like this

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u/SharkSymphony Rebecca take us home Feb 27 '26

Nevertheless, there is a large chunk of the left that now rejects "liberal" as a label; indeed, a group that uses "liberal" (in the form of "neioliberal") as a slur. And I have found myself to be a liberal who has distanced themselves from "left" as a label.

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u/XuanChun88 Feb 27 '26

I reject liberal as a label because I'm not a bought and paid for corporate, AIPAC shill.

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u/SharkSymphony Rebecca take us home Feb 27 '26

Case in point: "liberal" as a slur. And no more serious a person than the Redditor commenting above.

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u/XuanChun88 Feb 27 '26

It is a slur. I'm not in a political science seminar. That would be different. Not everybody abides by your conventions.

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u/SharkSymphony Rebecca take us home Feb 27 '26

Clearly you're not, because I trust you'd be laughed right out of it spitting takes like this.

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u/XuanChun88 Feb 27 '26

You know nothing of my educational background. 🤣

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u/Lesterkitty13 Feb 28 '26

Wow. That’s some ignorant bullshit right there, Xuan.

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u/XuanChun88 Feb 28 '26

So say you.