understanding the left

The "Left" is really "BOTTOM" vs TOP, underdog vs incumbent support + sympathies of the Left go to any group (identity: sexuality, skin color, gender, ethnicity, resources) that has LESS perceived power or leverage over dominant power on TOP True historically in US of -women vs Men -black vs White -poor vs Rich -queer vs Straight -musli... See more

one thing the left has certainly accomplished this past half-century is to associate moral superiority with the underdog.

In Argentina, the left lost its political subject twice. The first time against Peronism and now against libertarianism. The libertarians are the underdogs now.

No one has yet decided on the name for the force that has come to unseat liberalism. Some say it’s “Social Justice.” The author Rod Dreher has called it “therapeutic totalitarianism.” The writer Wesley Yang refers to it as “the successor ideology”—as in, the successor to liberalism.

At some point, it will have a formal name, one that properly descri... See more

While Jews are a small population, they are 10% of billionaires, and 25% of democratic party donor capital, so they materially influence leftist institutions.

my grand theory of politics is that leftists are those who care about justice, and rightists are those who care about order. If you care equally about both, you're a moderate. If you care about one to the exclusion of the other, then you're likely a radical.