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cmv: I will never join the Liberal Left

I left the conservative right. I will never join the liberal left.

Context: I, 24M, grew up in NYC suburbs. Very religious parents. Attended an incredibly large, diverse high school, pretty evenly split: 1/3 black, 1/3 latino, 1/3 white/asian/other. I am white. In the middle of high school, we moved to a VERY small midwest town, less than 4000 people. I finished high school there. I lived in Mexico City for a few years. My parents are religious, I am atheist.

Why I left the conservative right:

\-Failure to address global warming.

\-Way too much military spending. Bailing out the rich. Privatized prisons. Drug policies.

\-Too many GOP leaders are religious and pander to the religious right, and left those views affect their jobs.

\-Racism: it exists, obviously. White privilege exists. Change needs to happen.

\-Trump. Everything about that. ESPECIALLY, the nail in the coffin, was the threat to democracy and the integrity of our nation. Denying an election result? That's SCARY.

Why I won't join the left:

\- Always assuming the moral high ground: It's popular to support the left right now, which is great. What's not okay is the automatic admission into the "We are better people than you" club, and constantly vilifying anyone that has an opposing opinion. I am particularly annoyed with celebrities that capitalize on this great opportunity to gain moral approval from the "mob", and all the keyboard activists that act like they've been supporting BLM, LGBTQ since their birth. Someone who's activism I can respect: Bernie Sanders. From what I've seen, this man has been fighting for LGBTQ since his entry into politics. Someone I can't respect: Lebron James, a king with a billion dollar deal with Nike who is a "leader" in the fight against human rights violations, but won't open his mouth against China, possibly one of the biggest violators in history and COINCIDENTALLY, one of the biggest markets for the NBA and his shoes. Funny right?

\- Freedom of speech: Twitter wants to ban Trump: good. Private organizations can do what they like. I'm talking about the OVERALL willingness of the left to let anyone not aligning with their views to speak. They love to shout over people they don't like to hear. They love slap a horrible label on anyone on the right, and discredit anything they have to say. They aren't interested in much discourse. I attend a relatively conservative university and let me tell you: people are afraid to talk. I'm not talking about Nazis, (I've never met one, or anything close). I'm talking about normal, moderate young adults. They are afraid to speak their opinion on any social issue for fear of being personally attacked, cancelled, vilified. Which brings me to my next point:

\- Alienating potential allies: SO MANY CONSERVATIVES AGREE WITH THE LEFT, on so many issues, but are constantly pushed away. The strategy of "You're either with us or against us" is strangling so many potential allies to the left. ALL of my conservative peers agree that racism, LGBTQ, women's rights, and other important issues exist. However, the left will chew you up and spit you out if you have anything to say in contrary to the mob. I loved seeing my little town put up BLM signs after George Floyds death, a town full of farmers and ranchers and blue collar folks. I was sad to see that those signs didn't last long during the riots. So many down-to-earth conservatives want to help. Their support is turned away.

\-Double standards: I'm active on pretty much every social media platform that exists: (I created this account just for this post, I have another account for regular things). I'm a professional lurker. How can everyone turn a blind eye to the gross hatred and intolerance in every corner of the internet, all aimed at the right? Have you ever seen a black conservative speak up? The personal attacks are astounding... the racism is astounding! OTHER LEFTISTS insult their dark skin, call them house n\*\*\*as, insult they way they speak, they tell them to die, never procreate, etc. This don't happen just a little. THIS HAPPENS EVERYWHERE. Reddit may hate Tiktok, but if you want to get a good idea of how the youth act, go on Tiktok and see how they treat people with MODERATE views. its disgusting's. Or, maybe just wander over to the politics section of reddit and take a look at the comments.

Yep, I don't think I'll ever join the liberal left. CMV.

Edit 1: Here are some policies I disagree with:

\-The Green New Deal. It's literally fiscally impossible to carryout, especially within the suggested timeline.

\-Boarder security.

\-Voter ID laws.

\-Forgiving student loan debt. I could probably easily be swayed in this category, but I still have major hesitations on who, when, how much, etc.

\-Gun control. I could also be swayed pretty easily, but I still have uneasiness trusting our ever-so dependable, never-corruptible government to not abuse other civil liberties shortly after. I could go either way on the other facets of this argument.

Edit #2:  After reading all the comments I realize I should've defined "liberal" and "join/leave". My whole point was that I feel alienated by the left for not completely agreeing with ALL of their platform, because of the loudest, most radical. Other conservatives feel similarly. 

TLDR: The right is crazy. The left is the other side of the same, ugly coin.
gpt
I don’t get your complaint. 


You’re a leftist politically. Good for you.  You’ve given good reasons why. 

But all of your complaints are not to do with leftist policies or ideas, but with the worst elements of leftist online activism. Some of your complaints are simply complaints about modern social media culture generally. They are nothing to do with leftist ideas or policies or ideologies. 

You’ll find that the worst elements of any ideology are horrible, and maybe especially of the right wing variety. 

If you can accept that  real world conservatives are against racism, homophobia etc ,. Then you should realize that real world leftists are not going around calling everyone Nazis.