Comments by "AholeAtheist" (@AholeAtheist) on "The Market Exit"
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These videos annoy me because they use the origins of the left/right spectrum to claim it isn't valid, but the left/right spectrum has evolved a bit over time to the point where the political compass was born, and the political compass has TWO spectrums, and the left/right spectrum is about economics. This is why the essentialist theory is wrong, because you can oppose immigration, because that is on the social spectrum, and also be an economic leftist.
LOL. Tony Blair and Barrack Obama are not left wing economically. They're not even "left wing"(the libertarian end of the social spectrum) socially. But focusing more accurately on the economics of it all, the actual left/right spectrum, they are neoliberals, which is right wing. Bernie Sanders is center left economically, and immigration, as I noted above, is a social issue.
The idea that tribalism forms most of our political opinions applies mainly to those who do not understand the actual political compass and don't focus on actual policy. For example, if you're actually on the center left and focus on policy, you would no like Obama or Blair, but you would probably hold your nose and vote for Obama anyway because you live in a two party system and he was the least bad option.
Republicans/conservatives switching their opinions on the minimum wage based on their leaders opinion is because they are exactly the poorly educated, and poorly informed people who don't actually care about policy, and instead focus on their own political identity/label.
This granular idea isn't a bad one, but it still doesn't mean we have to throw out the political compass. Ground News is shit because they're also still falling for an Americanized Overton window that is centered almost entirely over the authoritarian right quadrant of the political compass.
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