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It's interesting how it was always the more radical left who were the first to demand solidarity with other oppressed people. Liberalism, not so much. Yet now, neoliberalism publicly takes on the mantle of "freeing people" and "bringing democracy". It's a clever trick.

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It doesn't exactly help that most of the left have moved on to ineffectual navel-gazing and internal strife. It's really pretty depressing. We don't get to just blame the bigots and profiteers for *all* the issues our politics face.

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I feel like I just support human decency and common sense. I think that makes me a radical.

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For some definitions of those terms, such as the ones I have a feeling you're using, sure. Plenty of using that to disguise not really engaging with difficult questions ("but it's just common sense!"). But I know that's not what you meant.

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I identify as "left", mostly because the consensus is so overwhelmingly right-wing, even a moderate position is quite far left of the relative center. In practical terms I tend to side with social democrats on basic political stuff, but I think they won't fix climate, so...

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It would be nice to believe our politics will solve anything. But I don't think that will be the case. I'm very much so in the "let's carve out a new niche/reclaim old ones" camp on how to survive the next centuries.

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Mountains good, cities bad, basically.

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Basically where I am. I've always maintained if I were in a collectivist hegemony that denied the individual, I'd appear right wing. But fact is, it's the left who correctly identifies problems and solutions IMO, what with the world as it is.

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I think both sides of the political spectrum are badly wrong and out of sync with reality, for the most part. Some small exceptions aside. But I think the right-wingers often end up being wrong-and-also-pointlessly-cruel, which rubs me the wrong way. But that's me.

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I had kind of checked out of politics, but then Bernie inspired me, then my hopes were dashed, for a while I wondered if I were a marxist, but lately I think in a sane society like Iceland, I would be a moderate.