I'm hoping this doesn't start a fight, I'm just curious what the political orientation is of this community. I grew up in a liberal (in the American sense) family, and I identify now as a socialist, though a lot of the liberalism I grew up in has stuck with me, like interest in LGBTQ and women's rights, environmentalism, etc. Wondering where people here land?
I'm sorry, hold on, who the fuck are you to tell anyone what their material conditions are without having asked or brought receipts of their claims? What exactly are you doing asking questions about people's "political orientation", and yet you seem to already know everything about everyone? What are you doing?
Ornamental "rights" and "freedoms" that serve no tangible benefit to the material and social conditions of the working class are virtues in name only.
The US has had liberal democracy for quite a while now, and guess what? It's a massive failure. The US is a failed state. Widespread illiteracy, decaying social and material conditions, widespread immiseration and loss of dignity, skyrocketing inflation, plummeting purchasing power for the working class, odious student and medical debt, widespread corruption, endless forever wars against the working class of other countries, environmental breakdown with collapsing ecosystems due to deliberately perpetuated fossil fuel dependence, collapsing bridges and other crumbling infrastructure, subway systems that are de-facto sewers like in New York City, tent cities as far as the eye can see, home ownership nigh-impossible for the vast majority, over 50% of millennials and even higher percentage of young people having to live with their parents because rents are beyond absurd, increasingly more young people unable to afford their own transportation... But what, you can talk shit about your politicians or whatever the fuck?
Tell me, oh lord of the Gospel Truth, what are your solutions to the failed state you call the US?
Bull. Shit. The way you've condescended and sneered at people here has proven the complete opposite. You showed your whole ass just like that.