Seriously far left is in part why we are in this mess so I would never let it grow here without a fight.
It's not the far left. I've misused saying that once or twice in ignorance. It's quite reactionary to pit far left vs far right.
IMO what it really is is many shades of leftists all arguing for a power struggle about how this side will go forward. Not just voters vs voters either, but the parties are even rife with fighting. See the Labour party in the UK, or the current Democrats in America. Both unelectable, both in tatters from ideological fighting which has filtered through to the voters. 90% of the arguing on GAF is between liberals and liberals. The board doesn't have a big right presence, and many of whom are on the right here keep quiet.
At this point I feel like I'd need a political degree to truthfully talk about it all with a genuine air of confidence and not just my biased, slightly ignorant brain.
However my best shot will continue to be it's an ongoing battle between leftists, liberals, authoritarians, progressives, regressives, neo-marxists, Tumblr and more. Well, okay, maybe not Tumblr, but there is a one heck of a portal to jump through viewing Tumblr leftists in their natural habitat lol. Still not exactly far left, just the shades of this side showing up again. People valuing individualism before conforming.
Strictly speaking all this diversity is a good thing, objectively speaking it's causing the battle against the right to be incredibly difficult. They largely tend to unify and give up individualism for behaving like a tribe. The left pushes to unify in a tribe in desperation to tackle the right, but there is so much push back to conformity because so many on this side value individualism first. Many think part of being on the left or being liberal should be treating life like a battle of ideas and all things should be discussed at length. Others on this side do not want to get involved in the some of the same topics the right discusses, as that is almost blasphemy to approach something they often use as rhetoric. Most notably it often comes down to things like immigration, cultures, gender, and many other social issues that some on the left have turned into dirty words in their reactionary angst against the right. This side tends to hold "all" the scientists as well, and where there is science and biology there is a lot of fighting on the social issues. Individualism doesn't always play nicely with science. Have a look and see how postmodernism fares in front of most of the scientific community.
It's just not good times man to be a leftist or liberal right now. The fighting amongst us will continue on for a while and I really have no idea how or even if it's going to get better any time soon. I'm trying my best not to be as much of an asshole when espousing my views. I do stand by them, but I have to realise as I've mentioned above many on the left will read my posts and call them bullshit. Which is fair enough but I do try my best to articulate what I feel, and I certainly don't post to troll or bait.
