62% of Americans Say They Have Political Views They’re Afraid to Share

Re:62% of Americans Say They Have Political Views They’re Af... by seiferteric on Thursday July 23, 2020 @06:13PM (#23933095)

Here is more, I am a Democrat but:

- Not all problems require more/bigger Government, and sometimes makes the problems worse.

- I am pro 2nd amendment and don't think most gun laws are actually legal.

- Actual Socialism is bad, even immoral imo but I do support socialized healthcare and a few other things (see below)

- Capitalism is pretty great most of the time, except when it comes to externalities, transactions under duress (like healthcare often is) and tragedy of the commons scenarios.

- Democrats have been swayed by extreme leftists lately and they are trying to use any tragedy to push a socialist addenda.

Probably many more. If there was a pro capitalism party that supported moderate government intervention (when needed) and stood up for all of our constitutional rights, I would jump ship in a second.

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Re:62% of Americans Say They Have Political Views They’re Af... by non-entity on Thursday July 23, 2020 @06:47PM (#23933576)

You make the distinction between actual socialism and socialization of certain institutions, but then immediately claim democrats are trying to push socialist agendas which leads me to believe you're being disingenuous or you don't know what "actual socialism" is, which I assure you is not nearly as mainstream as you'd like to think.

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Re:62% of Americans Say They Have Political Views They’re Af... by seiferteric on Thursday July 23, 2020 @07:07PM (#23933785)

Perhaps my post was not clear, but I mean the leftist wing are pushing socialism, not mainstream Democrats (yet). My fear is that there influence in the party will grow and in a two party system where am I to go? It won't be the Republican party.

Also I am sure there is a perception bubble effect but on pretty mainstream sites like reddit I regularly see posts and comments blaming all of societies ills on Capitalism that are highly up-voted.

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Re:62% of Americans Say They Have Political Views They’re Af... by wry_discontent on Thursday July 23, 2020 @06:17PM (#23933168)

    Democrats have been swayed by extreme leftists

As an extreme leftist, I need an example of this. Because where I sit, they are all pro-big-business big government centrists.

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Re:62% of Americans Say They Have Political Views They’re Af... by non-entity on Thursday July 23, 2020 @06:21PM (#23933217)

"extreme leftist" has become so watered down that I basically assume people just mean "liberal who is aggressive on socially progressive stances".

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Re:62% of Americans Say They Have Political Views They’re Af... by cableshaft on Thursday July 23, 2020 @06:31PM (#23933372)

You monster. I'm unfriending you this instant and telling all of my friends they have to unfriend you too in the next 6 hours or else I'm unfriending them also.

While I'm kidding about the op, I see this all the time on my feed. Just today, I saw someone in my Facebook feed just today demand that everyone unfriend person X right away because they're a Trump supporter, and he would go through the list of mutual friends and unfriend everyone who didn't. I'm far from a Trump supporter, but I find this behavior childish.

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