This is Leftist

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25. Who are the same?

Who are you talking about?

I am so tired of the centrist claim. Are you now going to call Marx and Tithi Bhattacharya centrists? This charade is getting old. Just because you support a view doesn't make it leftist. When it serves the interests of the few over the many, it is by nature right-wing.

I am no longer going to sit back and watch people advance right-wing positions while claiming they are leftist and others centrist. Leftist has an actual meaning, and it's origin relates to socialism, to Marx. The closer to that side of the spectrum, the more leftist. The closer to promoting the interests of laissez-fair capitalism and the privileged few, the further right. Promoting capital over human rights is not leftist. Supporting the interests of the privileged over the majority is not leftist. It is right-wing. That some openly seek to restore America to a period before most Americans had rights, prior to the Civil Rights Act of 1964, further points to the reactionary nature of that worldview. It is only natural that right-wingers support right-wing candidates who promote the interests of capital, the gun lobby, and white men of means over the rest of the humanity.

This notion of leftist as defined by level of anger about what appears on the cable televisions is at best inane. That has far more to do with temperament and approach to politics than ideology. The fact there is no ideological fulcrum around which they define their "leftism" is demonstrative. Then of course there are a few ratfuckers who take advantage of the frustration many feel to promote the interests of the GOP and further promote the interests of capital.