Opposing fascism isn’t far left. That’s just being a decent person.

This meme is made by a leftist, and that community does have an issue with the same “if you don’t explicitly agree with everything we say, you are other and therefore evil” attitude that the MAGA crowd has.

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Hey look, someone trying to prove my point.

They’re right, you’re a moron and a coward

Based on what? The fact that I don’t fall over myself to agree with whatever the leftist opinion-du-jour is? Comments like yours are specifically why the leftist movement is doomed to failure. It’s a shame, since most the ideas are good, just too many self-righteous assholes are the vocal face of it.

You sound like a Libertarian.

I view libertarianism similarly to how I view communism (the actual philosophies not the co-opted bullshit Libertarianism or the red scare version of communism); they are systems that seem like they could work if you somehow got everyone on the same page, but I don’t believe that they are robust enough to withstand the people who would exploit the system.

I feel like half the problem with politics right now is that everyone feels like they have to pick a label to call themselves. So they pick whichever is closest to what they believe at the time, then (consciously or unconsciously) mold themselves to conform with that chosen group. Suddenly, everyone who disagrees is personally attacking them, since they went and made their political affiliation part of their identity, rather than just a choice they make.

Do you believe in anything?

I don’t think politics should be based on belief. Beliefs imply inflexibility. I think we should look to history, find out what worked, and find out why the things that didn’t work failed, and use that to try and come up with ideas that will work in the modern context. And I definitely don’t think we should chain ourselves to ideas that aren’t working, which people seem to have a tendency to do when it’s their beliefs.

So you’re one of those people whose whole political stance is “we should look into that.” Cool. You don’t have any thoughts? Opinions?

That’s not what I said, and I’m not going to write you an entire thesis explaining my position on every single issue. My point is that people shouldn’t just pick one political philosophy and take every tenet it has as gospel.