cyan_messThe right saying that the left wants to forcibly transition kids was, again, projection.
The things is, epstein wasn’t right or left. He played both sides as long as it served him.
It also makes complete sense for people like that to not give a fuck about political ideologies, because politics barely affect them. Laws or policy just get ignored, its just something to keep the masses distracted with.
Trump would actually be the same if it wasn’t for being addicted to the populism that comforts his ego. Still be a racist and fascist in nature of course, but not actually caring about political power as long as they can do whatever.
But he was though. He did have an ideology. That ideology was everything in service of himself and other elites/billionaires in society. And what it means to be rich/powerful is a part of that ideology in the first place. Everyone has an ideology, whether they realize it or not
This is what you expect to see in a world with hierarchies and where the rich and powerful are entrenched. Nothing here is unexpected or otherwise incompatible with leftist analysis
In what world could you say that Epstein gave circumstantial support to the left? At what point did he ever support lessening the amount of power the powerful have? Left vs right is far more than just social issues, it’s the whole package
Ideology yes, but not fitting on the traditional left/right spectrum.
There are more than 2 ideologies, the left/right divide is only a grouped polarisation of policies. And a useful one to billionaires.
If policies don’t affect you, you don’t need to care about either. You can be gay and own guns. You can be anti immigration but pro abortion.
Now what is true that the right is a much more practical tool for billionaires to maintain the status quo. But its not like they actually care or agree with what voters think. Like people who own a private island give a fuck about building a wall between US/Mexico. It’s all just part of a game to them. And Epsteins job was to maintain a level of friendly neutrality to influence both sides of it.
fitting on the traditional left/right spectrum.
Maybe if you are using the American definition of left and right… The traditional geopolitical definition of left and right has to do with economics not how woke you are.
By the traditional definition of left and right he is definitively right winged.
I can’t verify this for all of the non US west but i was under the impression that far right party in Germany was running on an anti-immigrant rhetoric and that plenty of smaller populist parties are mimicking maga.
Yes, most far right parties are very nationalistic and based in populism. They typically are also very pro capitalism while being very anti socialism.
A parties view on cultural progressiveness isn’t the main determining factor wether or not they are far left or far right.