Comment by cyanydeez
5 days ago
I feel like you can just replace liberal with Capitalist and you don't need the quotes.
They're trying to retain their audience because you know, cash. And making the far right fascists angry by calling them autocratic, authoritarians who will deport them, would cost money.
No need to make this politics. At this point it's basically capitlism against authoritarianism. "Left" doesn't exist as a viable political position right now.
> At this point it's basically capitlism against authoritarianism
Ha. You say that as though those things are incompatible. Some capital is putting up token resistance to the rise of authoritarianism, but it can't be a strong counterforce because that would risk retribution. Instead more and more capitalists bend the knee in hopes of favorable treatment. That's why I say the likes of CNN and NBC will switch to bootlicking before long.
I mean, they are in the interim. I fully understand capitalists can make money on cruelty.
But we're talking about the statement made and transitions.
There's a very large political base, particularly of young people, that is more than ready for leftist politics.
It just doesn't get any funding from the millionaires who fund the DNC or the billionaires who fund the GOP. And money is how political organizations run. We have too much wealth inequality to effectively enfranchise most of the population; Capitalism ate democracy, film at 11.