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near the beginning of the war liberals were decrying Russia for, according to them, arresting draft dodgers and sending them to the front anyways.
And now here we are, with Ukraine doing that and arguably worse (the equivalent of kidnapping), and liberals don’t seem to give a shit.
I really hope there’s a name for these mental gymnastics. When it’s the “bad guys” anything they do is evil, but when it’s the “good guys” doing the same shit it’s somehow a good thing.
The simplest explanation is that the American “left” is rightwing, because they’ve been told that actual leftism is bad.
We’re only told about leftist ideology or politics in the context of “these bad people in the past did bad things”, and many Americans refuse to actually tackle those lies. because of this, no one in the American “left” is willing to be anti-capitalist in any way that actually matters. Nor are they willing to use materialism in their dialectics, because their political education comes from Liberalism, so they’re more willing to listen to right-wing talking points and integrate them into their views.
This is why you’ll see Americans who’ll call themselves “leftists” pair a statement for working rights with a statement against immigration. Or you’ll see them decry the horrors of fascism, then support whatever new war NATO has wrought.