just noticed a weird thing there used to be a ton of leftist cause areas. you could be a cool leftist by protesting china occupying tibet or by supporting gay marriage or by sending shoes to honduras or opposing the middle east or destroying the sun (long term cause of coal)
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a bit of both I think. I have the impression that European leftists are still very very focused on climate change. The U.S. seems to have propagandized itself into submission.
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One can chart this change through the decidedly unscientific method of reading the synopses of Simpsons-episodes
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(iiI) general decline in quality of people involved and ability to multithread as the program metastasizes to the general population
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once you go fully mainstream you lose the ability to have multiple distinct priorities, it all becomes a big blob this probably favors issues that are better suited to blobbing
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The formalization of morality on rent seeking lines?
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Here the climate topics have been taken out of the hand of the left and been adapted by a generally left-leaning but diverse youth movement (Greta and Fridays for Future didn’t happen by accident)
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Their protest is anti-establishment, not anti specific political leaning (although again there is overlap), which means the established left is suddenly caught in their fire for being complicit in existing power structures So that issue has been lost as political capital
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Mencken put it best: “Liberals have many tails and chase them all.”
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but apparently not anymore is the thing
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