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reincarnator07 posted...

I think it's even worse than that. So much emphasis is placed on factions and labels that people will consistently act against their own interests just so "their" team can win. I've seen so many self described Republican voters that straight up agree with the far left on many policies when you take teams out of it. This isn't horseshoe bullshit, they have left wing views. However, their identity as a Republican takes priority over their views, mostly because they're so scared of ""them"".

This doesn't change the fact that their actions are harmful, only that many of them aren't inherently evil.

Yeah, what you are describing here is an American populism that was born out of the last few decades of growing income inequality and then solidified after a series of financial industry crashes and bailouts created through greed and incompetence.

Both Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders tapped into this populism, but unfortunately America picked the fake populist with a gold toilet in his exclusive golf resort none of these rank and file MAGA voters would be allowed to set foot on, even in their nicest clothes.

But this conservative populism, which does share some values with the far left labor movement and other legitimate organizational populist movements on the left... also has some key differences: Right wing populists are extremely xenophobic and want to cut off most of all immigration from poor or non-white countries as an example, while on the left the labor populists think we solve immigration by making jobs have appealing and livable wages for native born citizens, instead of a second class labor force afraid to speak out against employee abuses driving down wages.