Let me make something clear. Notions like globalization, deep state, corporate media and manufactured consent are political terms the left has been using for decades. The fact that the alt-right is using them too doesn't mean that I should suddenly abandon them or ignore their significance, it only means that the alt-right has become more anti-status quo than fucking liberals which says a lot about liberals. Admittedly more often than not they use them in the most idiotic ways possible but hey, useful idiots are better than ruling class stooges parroting corporate propaganda.
The fact that you're delusional enough to think that the DNC neoliberals and Hillary Clinton would do something about health care and wealth inequality shows how out of touch with reality you people are. The only thing Obama did about health care was ban preexisting conditions, that's fucking it, everything else was pro-corporate crap that even screwed a lot of Americans financially. The only thing you're right about is climate change but let's be real that ship has sailed long ago, the Paris agreement is just weak damage control for the upcoming disaster your precious capitalism has caused.
As for accusing me for peddling Russian propaganda because I refused to believe another unverified excuse for war, yeah, like I said liberals have become more pro-status quo than fucking rightwingers so it's no surprise that you geniuses would immediately turn to McCarthyism the moment someone doubts your precious corporate media that have lied consistently to manufacture public support for war.
This is where you lose the plot to me. The alt-right(or Trump conservatives, which are basically just Republicans) are not useful idiots, they are just idiots. They co-opt terms but completely subvert their meaning.
Anti-globalism? It's not that they have some concept of economic justice they wish to advance, looking to close the major problem of growing wealth inequality or advance the interests of labor or the common man(even a superficial look at Trump's governing on things like executive orders on labor protections and his party's tax bill cements this), its just a flashy term for good old fashioned nativism to rile up their base. The deep state? It's been used literally like rhetoric borrowed from autocrats like Putin and Erdogan. It's populist language used to justify self-serving cronyism and power grabs, it has nothing to do with questions about institutional corruption or overreach, just rhetorical coverage to uproot institutions that stand as impediments to their authoritarian tendencies. In over a year, not once has Trump tried to advance
any legislation that attempts to positively address structural issues in the political system or institutions. Just scandal after scandal and rampant cronyism. That right there should be the tell. Anti-corporate media? Give me a fucking break. The only reason there is any issue with the press on the right is because their leader has no respect for the ideals he is charged with protecting and wishes to eliminate adversarial voices that will inform the public on his incompetence and malfeasance. The opposite of what you claim your ideals to be. If the current corporate media is bad, you have your work cut out for me to explain how the right has the answers on that.
As for healthcare, you don't even make sense. Even Bernie can recognize that you don't make the perfect the enemy of the good. Obamacare by any margin made healthcare more accessible and improved the system. Was it an ideal? Absolutely not. And I would gladly discuss this with you to any level of surgical depth you are capable of handling. But at the end of the day this is not an autocracy and Obama can't force Joe Lieberman to accept the public option or more generous subsidies. Obama can't overrule the courts that struck down a minor typo to refuse Medicaid expansion money, or stop Marco Rubio and Republicans from sabotaging the risk corridors and undermining the non-profit co-ops that were intended to inject additional market competition and make coverage more affordable. Either way, on any of those topics, the left, even the evil establishment left, is far closer to those ideals than the alt right. Yet you seem to throw almost all your hate at them while doing contortionist acts to apologize or blind yourself to the alt-right's vastly more disagreeable stances on every issue you claim to hold dear.
...Except for your hatred of social justice and feminism. There you seem to have a true common cause. One thats beyond using the same language, that does seem to be of substance.
So this all gets me back to the central point, despite all those vast sets of differences, you seem to almost exclusively organize around the alt-right and anti-liberalism with a high level of frequency, while the only thing you seem to truly have shared beliefs on are hating social justice advocates and feminism. Which certainly suggests that seems to be an overruling quality for you. So I would say again, identity over policy? Or were you really that superficially unaware of the context in which the alt-right's language exists in?
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As for the insistence on standing behind Russian propaganda. Which I will point out again, in your attempt to show that Wolf Blitzer is a deep-state war-for-profit shill, you literally quoted a state propaganda outlet attempting to misrepresent a situation to propagandize for their authoritarian employer so as to benefit their war-profit and geopolitical military interests in the Middle East. Even you need to laugh at the absurdity on that one pal.
