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>>15997392

Why does America consider me a Right Winger?/ Why is our left wing so politically impotent?

Preemptive apology for the blog post (I'm sure this will be ruthlessly mocked by both sides) but I'm not sure where else to talk about this. I finally took the political compass test and it turns out that I'm authoritarian left. In terms of economic policy I'm actually to the left of a lot of my "left wing" friends. Yet people I meet seem to think I'm part of some sort of radical right winger.

I really don't hate anyone. I basically never go on /pol/. I just think collective national identity is important, and that traditional gender roles (while flawed at times) are essential for healthy communities. All the left wingers I know readily acknowledge the need for collectively solidarity to fight capitalism, but are wholeheartedly in favor of liberal policies which destroy any local community solidarity. Why is it suddenly "progressive" to commoditize sex and emotional relationships? I feel like these are some of the last parts of our culture at least relatively untouched by capitalism.

Unironically I feel that third world nationalist movements have done more to roll back imperialism then internationalist socialism. That being said the two cannot be disconnected, but all the left liberals I now seem to think that nationalist solidarity and socialist solidarity are complete opposites.

I really want to believe in the left wing. I can't stress how much I want the democratic party to go back to Jimmy Carter. But it feels like the established left wing in this country cares about transgender immigrants more then unions.

I'm coming from a Latin Catholic background here, and sometimes I completely despise the Anglo/Scottish half of me.