• mommykink@lemmy.world
    321·
    6 months ago

    It’s not even moving the goalposts, leftists have been pushing for these things for the better part of six decades. Our current circumstances are the result of concessions.

  • PugJesus@lemmy.worldEnglish
    81·
    6 months ago

    There’s definitely a difference between “We should always be trying to make things better” and “Yes, I know I said that it was okay to support the liberal against literal fascism if they did X (which of course they would never do!), but now that they’ve done X, we shouldn’t be satisfied with that! Critical support for accelerationism through fascism!”

    • PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee
      1·
      6 months ago

      I think Jregg actually came up with a generally correct way to look at it, as an amalgam of spectrums that people can differentiate across on different general categories, with the left being progressive, the right being regressive, and the center representing a status quo stance.

      I’d say which issues you line up differs from country to country, but for the US for example it’d be something like

      Healthcare, Abortion, Welfare, Firearms, Government Structure, The balance between states and the federal government, voting reform, and the role of American Christianity in the government.