There is like a rise of the "Purity" or "Moderate Social Values" type of leftist recently for some fucking reason. Like do we need to do a prohibition struggle again?
Left liberalism has become a camp for hall monitors and moralist puritans who have given up any real life change and seems more interested in self aggrandizing and using the existing structures to punish anyone who isn't as pure and enlightened as they are.
It is politics of The Other. If you're not 100% on board with them, you are The Other. It is very satisfying to hold oneself up as the moral holier-than-thou and claim this moral superiority enables - nah, compels - you to police the rest of society. And one thing that people at the top can always do without repurcussion is punch down and punish the little people for failing to live up to your moral standards. It is exhilarating. It is proof positive of your high status.
There is like a rise of the "Purity" or "Moderate Social Values" type of leftist recently for some fucking reason. Like do we need to do a prohibition struggle again?
My thoughts exactly.
Left liberalism has become a camp for hall monitors and moralist puritans who have given up any real life change and seems more interested in self aggrandizing and using the existing structures to punish anyone who isn't as pure and enlightened as they are.
It is politics of The Other. If you're not 100% on board with them, you are The Other. It is very satisfying to hold oneself up as the moral holier-than-thou and claim this moral superiority enables - nah, compels - you to police the rest of society. And one thing that people at the top can always do without repurcussion is punch down and punish the little people for failing to live up to your moral standards. It is exhilarating. It is proof positive of your high status.
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