For example its largely agreed California is the most "progressive" "politically correct" kind of leftist brand in the US right now. One would imagine its huge big govt policies, replete with "tolerant, accept every opinion as equal" politicians that "seek full engagement with poverty" (to quote your label here) and everything else that gets fully cheery applause from the soma-induced populations of the brave new world over there.....would lead it to have the least poverty in the US.
But it has the biggest poverty (level, % and income gap)
by far (exacerbated immensely by the middle class simply fleeing to other states which have much less draconian tax laws)....how strange is that?...and AOC (and her likes) wants to have that as the federal norm....Hugo Chavez style...because that totally worked out great in a massively oil surplus nation.
Right now as you read this, homeless, poor people in San Francisco (a sanctuary city, one which has Nancy Pelosi's constituency in it)...are openly defecating right in the downtown area each and every day (you can check the videos yourself if you don't believe me), used needles thrown in as freebies to step on too....and there is this ever-expanding thing more broadly in California called "tent cities". Look it all up...the media barely talks about it.
But you know who talks about it with me? Many Lefties do. The ones left behind by the politically correct, unthinking, emotional neo-liberals that call themselves as on the "left" these days. The ones that can only laugh (as they sear inside) when they see the former titans of their cause being totally perverted in use/context today by the neo-left.
Take Cesar Chavez, the avowed traditionalist leftie/socialist/democrat what have you. The guy that went about enforcing a crude vigilantism (which you can read about if you want) on what was supposed to be his fellow Mexicans/Latinos....because they had gotten into the US illegally and were stifling his trade union formations by undercutting the bargaining power of his leftist ideals (to stick it to the enterprises). If you read of all it....you would clearly know who he would have voted for this election cycle (and the next)...certainly would not be the democrats.
BUT.....get this....they (the democrats today) use his name for every single "outreach" to latino populations in CA and labelling of libraries/civic centres what have you etc....coz his name and neatly packaged identity as a democrat.
...trust me you dont want to hear what one of my close leftist friends had to say about a recent opening of such a thing (i.e who was present at the opening and what they stood for compared to the ole Cesar).
Literally a guy that went around BURNING HOUSES/PROPERTY and BEATING up illegal mexicans (some say even lynching) so they would go the hell back to Mexico (and get in legally by the rule of law later...as decided upon by those already in CA and the US)....is now a clarion call of todays politically correct flavour of globalist open border democrat....because identity politics rules over any half-assed logic even. You literally cannot make this stuff up!
Each and every one of the true traditional leftists that have thought things over, have some basic consistency... and are not brainwashed chumps (given they knew the worst of it regarding the MSM/political windbags earlier when they were not on their side like they now have "switched" to and hijacked)...can have a productive discussion with me....anywhere, anytime. They are my friends and allies to the end...always have been, always will be.
Because they know my friend, what the democrat history is very fundamentally till it got its Saul Alinsky directioneering and requisite smoke and mirrors. It shows up every now and again if you look hard enough for the details and logical ends of the posturing.
But what can never be suppressed though, is the plantation complex that caused the democrats to veer away from their overt KKK roots to a more nuanced control of the voter groups. Every single major social policy they have right now...started under the KKK era...its just been repackaged to rely on people's laziness to read up history.
Just a few (parenthesis is what it originally was for the original democrats):
- Gun control (keeping guns away from the blacks)
- Abortion (eugenics to keep the black population down)
- Higher Taxation (destroy black enterprise formation)
- More immigration (more white immigration only, regardless of process/merit,..and policy suppression of any other sort)
These were all transmuted over time to their current rainbow-coalition feelings form that Alinsky literally prescribed (helping to whitewash KKK grand wizards into wonderful political mentors like the one for Hillary Clinton). In fact Malcolm X was already very attuned to this happening with the "liberals" when he was around....he put it quite frankly a lot of the time. But now we have sorts like Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson instead....pretending to talk for his position...after they have been funded and groomed by the same "liberals".
Basically direct polarisation/segregation gave way to a more nuanced plantation style of identity politics....and it always shows up in the snobbery in the end (that gets these leftie acquaintances of mine talking to me in the first place many times)....like "knowing" whats best for the blacks, latinos, immigrants and whoever else in the intersectional alliance of kumbaya...RATHER than trusting them to make their own decisions. (Where have I seen that fundamentally before with the democrats?....hmmmmm)
The traditional leftists/liberals fought very hard to gain control of such a party and steer it to something better. They spilled blood even. So they will definitely not stand for its lurching uncontrollably in "power for power sake" fashion....away from consensus, away from logic, away from consistent backbone.
This is what the Democrats (and similar neo-leftie powerhungry parties) do not grasp at all....in fact they are doubling down on it (and leading mobs like ANTIFA and their online + social media equivalents...all generously funded by big fat oligarchs). It will be taught a harsh lesson in the end....given it didnt learn from the most recent one. Its not about left vs right at all anymore. Its about power hungry elite vs the people now. We all know what happens to the elite eventually when they double down on their ego and powerlust. That is not for me to say to you.
Sorry if I made this pretty long in the end. Take your time to read it carefully.
TL; DR version for others (on just one example):
Although French suffered as well for it given French revolution in the interim of that.
