I did not have "liberals openly support a nazi and conservatives are the ones saying that is a bad thing (while also supporting them)" on my 2023 bingo card.
Conservative liberals can be less susceptible than progressive liberals to being duped about this kind of thing because they're well into their nationalism and remember which side their country ostensibly fought on during WWII; i.e. against the Nazis. So they can see open support for Nazis as betrayal of 'what we fought for' (even though we weren't born). Maybe it depends on the country.
Progressive libs, on the other hand, like to get sucked in to giving the appearance of being 'on the good side'. Do they blow in the wind.
Sometimes, if you can find a way to suspend conservatives' bigotry for long enough to talk about history and economics, they can skip the progressive liberalism all together and go straight to communist. Not all of them, of course.
I suppose my point is that we can't rely on a spectrum where progressives are closer to communists than conservatives. They're all a big fluid blob of reactionary.
Its best when you think of these parties as opportunist / opposition foils in a theatre play. Bourgeois democracy isn't much more than a reality TV show with the script written by their capitalist puppetmasters.
I did not have "liberals openly support a nazi and conservatives are the ones saying that is a bad thing (while also supporting them)" on my 2023 bingo card.
It was on mine. Nazis the lot of 'em.
They play to the myth that the Nazis were socialists. Their base believes it because to them liberals are socialists.
Conservative liberals can be less susceptible than progressive liberals to being duped about this kind of thing because they're well into their nationalism and remember which side their country ostensibly fought on during WWII; i.e. against the Nazis. So they can see open support for Nazis as betrayal of 'what we fought for' (even though we weren't born). Maybe it depends on the country.
Progressive libs, on the other hand, like to get sucked in to giving the appearance of being 'on the good side'. Do they blow in the wind.
Sometimes, if you can find a way to suspend conservatives' bigotry for long enough to talk about history and economics, they can skip the progressive liberalism all together and go straight to communist. Not all of them, of course.
I suppose my point is that we can't rely on a spectrum where progressives are closer to communists than conservatives. They're all a big fluid blob of reactionary.
Its best when you think of these parties as opportunist / opposition foils in a theatre play. Bourgeois democracy isn't much more than a reality TV show with the script written by their capitalist puppetmasters.
Get me out of this weird, weird world