Thread by @Gitabushi

If you care to, you will be able to watch me make a political paradigm change in real time.

Basically, with the ascendancy of @AOC and The Squad, and the obvious intent of The COVID Lockdown to get more people hooked on Govt subsidy, and then correspondingly increase taxes, I just figured the US Left was pretty clearly Socialist.
However comma...

Someone made the argument yesterday or the day before that Democrats have no understanding of what the means of production are, have no intent to seize it, don't want a classless society, etc., etc., etc., yadda yadda.
Meaning, they are agnostic about several Socialist elements.

I can't find that tweet now.
But it was more than slightly persuasive to me.

I had noted before that what Democrats & GOPe were pushing for was to be designated as a NeoNobility, with special privileges, exemption from the rules they impose on the rest of us, and pushing the poor, middle class, non-metro areas, and all production into NeoFeudalism.

Everything the Left pushes for, like ballot harvesting, making the Senate proportional, making DC a state, giving illegal aliens representation in the House, a National Popular Vote or the elimination of the EC, & packing SCOTUS so it can be their private Super Legislature again~

...are *ALL* attempts to establish themselves as ruling class without any accountability. Exactly like the EU bureaucracy.
Sure, Socialism always develops this unelected, unaccountable cadre caste.
But it doesn't *require* Socialism to get there. And so they're going for it now.

When do you get to vote out CDC directors or OSHA directors that impose illegal mandates?

Never, that's when.

That's exactly what Democrats and the US Left (a broader set of people than just Democrats) are pushing for.

Heck, when I was searching for that tweet arguing Dems aren't actually Socialist, I found a bunch of tweets from Democrats saying to either pretend to or even actually reject Socialism.

But they still want to be unaccountable administrators of law to the lower class.

So I think you will see me use the term "Socialist" less and less.
They are Totalitarians.
They want EVERYTHING to be political, and they want to be in charge of it.

They believe all rights are conditional, and they will control the large, all-powerful central State that will assign these conditional rights by identity group, and then enforce them.
They have contempt for the common person.
They reject individuality in anything except sex.

And they will get power from the support of people who prefer to be ruled if it reduces risk, who are *happy* to accept reduced options if the reduction comes with a govt *guarantee* that all the remaining options are acceptable.

Thom Jeff foresaw this.
famguardian.org/Subjects/Polit…

This is the quote I'm trying to link:

And, of *EXTREME INTEREST* to me, the first attempt to link that quote was from the Federalist Paper website, and Twitter blocked it as "dangerous".
Find that link by searching for "Jefferson two parties" and click on the "federalistpapers.org" link.

This, then, is the current version of the Left vs the Right.
It obviously doesn't track well at all to Dem vs GOP at the leadership level. It tracks somewhat well to Progressive vs Conservative.

If you believe in universal, individual rights and agency, you're on the Right.
If you don't, you're on the Left.
There really is no middle ground on this.
You are in the Rule/Be Ruled paradigm, or you are in the "govt should be a servant" paradigm.

here's the tweet that persuaded me (tip o' the hat to @Tex_968 ):

https://twitter.com/RonColeman/status/1462953934411214857