multipolarity

It occurs to me I may come off as conservative, with all my denunciation of liberals. I forget how ridiculous mainstream discourse can be, and being the mainstream and all, what a lot of people are going to think. The political compass has become so convoluted, but no, I'm not growing more conservative in my old age. I'm literally a communist, you idiot.

It's liberals that are confused, when they think that's got nothing to do with leftism, but what I think of gender ideology does. Talking to people about what distinguishes left from right yields a range of conflicting answers. Republicans think CNN is leftist extremism. Liberals think communists are extremists. 

Some will argue that 'tankies' like myself aren't left at all, buying all the propaganda conflating capitalism with democracy, and communism with authoritarianism. Did you know that the country with the highest percentage of people to believe their own country is democratic is China? The US is nowhere near the top of that list.

I've long thought the left to be about egalitarianism more than anything else. The right being more about conserving hierarchies. The left wants everyone to have some. The right wants haves and have nots, us and thems, especially when it comes to power and money, aka capital. This has broad implications on everything from foreign policy to policing. Liberals are capitalists, wanting better safety nets while preserving the hierarchies that make them necessary. Liberals are center-right.

This is just my opinion though. If you want to take away my leftist card because I don't think liberals are any better than conservatives, take it. If people can't agree on what being left means, it doesn't mean anything.