r/agedlikemilk • u/karmaceuticaI • 1d ago

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u/TriviaNewtonJohn 1d ago

The few times I have looked at the conservative subreddit to see what they are posting, I noticed they are always name calling anyone they perceive as left wing - “libtards”, “stupid liberals” “idiot left wingers” etc. Its sad

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u/falcrist2 1d ago

The fun part is liberals and leftists are two VERY different things.

For example, liberals are generally pretty centrist. They want open markets and often support stricter gun control.

Leftists want an armed proletariat and a managed economy.

These aren't the same unless you're wayyyy out on the far right.

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u/Grand-Pen7946 1d ago

Both liberals and leftists tend to support desegregation and lgbt rights though, which to a right winger makes them identical. This blinds them to any of the economic differences between liberals and leftists, but usefully for the rich it also blinds them to their own economic common ground with leftists.

Like if you actually talk to farmers and rural people (true rural, not suburbanites wearing overalls), if you get to talking about specific economic topics which they havent been spoonfed a buzzword about, you'll notice their views line up pretty closely with those of leftists. But rich people have them convinced otherwise. Its interesting.

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u/falcrist2 1d ago

Both liberals and leftists tend to support desegregation and lgbt rights though, which to a right winger makes them identical.

Plenty of racism and specifically antisemitism in east block countries, the old USSR, China, etc.

farmers and rural people

Yea farmer cooperatives are fundamentally a leftist thing, but people tend not to see it that way because "leftist" and "progressive" get conflated about as much as "right wing" and "conservative".