General Discussion

In some of the Sanders left. Not Sanders himself as far as I can tell, but certainly some of his Jacobin style supporters.

The left has 2 rough strands imo - the Current Affairs Mag/Yasha Levine/Chris Ketcham left and the Jacobin left. The latter I dislike very much. I always suspected that and a vile piece by a man called Ben Wray, casually referring to women’s rights as “still popular”, sealed it.
I was also never a Chomsky fan and “MeToo hysteria” was the last straw.

The former otoh averaged with the Elizabeth Warren/ Lina Khan progressives and the Paul Krugman liberals represent my views as much as anyone does.

It is really senseless. Women are part of the working class and as is typical more screwed over. Something is wrong with the images of the world and reality people have.

I deal with such jerks every day and I am not entitled nor do I sneer about “male tears” etc.

But when you don’t seem to get that most women are actually pretty beaten down by life and not an imaginary villain who is a wealthy celebrity, that is a large part of the electorate that is being discarded.

I do think the culture wars assiduously fostered by our ugly tech overlords, with idiots like Alex Kaarp exulting about death blows for women’s rights, have lead us here.

The Jacobin would cheerfully throw away both environmental issues and women’s rights in favor of Yimbyism.

It is crazy. Family planning and abortion rights are important for all people. If you are a champion of the working class, it should be recognized that a flood of desperate climate change refugees will exacerbate every issue the US has. Perer Kalmus gets it.

Cornucopianism in action - the Jacobin left is as susceptible to it as The Atlantic, Vox and the right.

I have been steadily drifting left, but the misogyny is a major turn off and the liberals are way more reliable on that aspect.

You cannot have a real left that throws away environmental issues and women’s rights when it is convenient. Celebrity culture and internet culture wars are not real.

I have been thinking of learning solo ass kicking solo from you Skittles . I hate bullies so I can’t find my own insane mob…lol.