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Purity testing.
If you don't align with the party narrative 100%, down to the atom, then you're basically maga.
I don't think people realize this is a major factor that drives people away from progressive politics.
When a conservative meets someone more conservative, they bitch about liberals. When a leftist meets someone more left than them they compete with each other to see who's most "pure."
This is a major problem.
And if you point this out to progressive people as to nobody likes them and how offputting/alienating they are. You are clearly MAGA or voted for Trump. Clearly if only you were 'enlightened' like them you'd 100% agree with them and have no separate ideas, opinions, or life experience of your own.
I dunno, I usually see this among the trans community and neo-liberals.
Progressives seem to be very understanding of different viewpoints because otherwise they won't have anyone to talk to.
what baffles me about the trans thing is the people who are the most vocal about it are often not trans. they are often cis people who claim to speak for all trans people as if they are a monolith. IME of trans people... they are not a monolith. they are just people with a whole range of beliefs. and some trans folks are anti-progressive/elitist as fuck.