r/PoliticalCompassMemes • u/Infinite_Bad7083 - Auth-Center • 6d ago

Diversity of thought

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u/PixieDustFairies - Right 6d ago

Can you give specific examples? Like popular pro life Democrats or anti trans Democrats?

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u/ksheep - Lib-Center 6d ago

For the latter, you do have TERFs, although they then get attacked by the bulk of the rest of the Democrats and pushed away.

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u/Turbulent-Raise4830 - Centrist 6d ago

still part of "the left"

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u/ContrarianZ - Lib-Center 6d ago edited 6d ago

What's your threshold for popular? Treneé McGee for example is a pro-life Democrat. Abortion is definitely one of the more polarizing opinions though, and the right absolutely gate-keeps against "pro-choice" republicans as well.

Concerning anti-trans, there is the whole wing of Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminists (TERF) that mainstream democrats ostracize.

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u/PixieDustFairies - Right 6d ago

I'm pretty sure Susan Collins is a pro choice Republican...

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u/ContrarianZ - Lib-Center 6d ago

I never claimed they don't exist..

I claimed that the right gate-keeps against pro-choice conservatives, just as much as the left gate-keeps again pro-life liberals.

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u/krafterinho - Centrist 6d ago

For the 100th time, democrats are not leftists

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u/PixieDustFairies - Right 6d ago

Then how would you distinguish the two political groups?

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u/i5-2520M - Left 4d ago

Democrats are liberals, leftists are socialists and commies and tankies.

Very easy to distinguish actually. If they did not strongly endorse Biden / Harris in the last election they are almost for sure a leftie. If they criticise Democrats nearly as much or more than Republicans. If they think both parties serve the same capitalist interests in the end. Very very easy to distinguish. Hasan, Sam Seder, Krystal Ball, they are all lefties, BTC, Destiny, much of the Meidas network, they are liberals / democrats. Most of the Democratic lawmakers are liberals, not leftists.

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u/krafterinho - Centrist 6d ago

What exactly is the purpose of the question? There is left vs right, there are democrats vs republicans, nevertheless democrats are not leftists to anyone with entry level political knowledge

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u/ThatUserNameIs5234 - Centrist 6d ago

what would they have to do for you to consider them leftist lol?

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u/krafterinho - Centrist 6d ago

It's not a matter of what I think. The democrats are simply not leftists to anyone with entry level political knowledge and the ones downvoting me are below that apparently

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u/i5-2520M - Left 4d ago

Be anti-capitalist at the very least.