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I'm shocked how little americans understand politics and how everything is either "liberal left" or "far-right". Pick up a god damn book. Everyone has issues they are left-leaning about and others where they are right-leaning. It goes for every single human being and no political party is perfect, but you choose which is most important to you. It's not supposed to be a black and white thing where one party is to be hated and the other is to be loved. Atleast not in a normal world.
The vast majority of Americans don't even really understand these labels anyway. The way labels are used here is designed to point the average moron at the enemies of the party, and while I would love if people had more nuanced views, it's just not where we're at.
The vast majority of voters in our 2024 election had no idea who to vote for. I actually read the exit polling and it's depressing as fuck. The lack of understanding of what different parties and ideologies represent is what's causing ALL of this. People who voted for Obama and supported Bernie Sanders voted for Trump because they just had no idea what he represented, in HUGE numbers. So in this context, we definitely need labels so people who work 6 days a week and get all their news from Facebook memes sunday night for 30 minutes have a clue who represents what.
The labels aren't the problem, it's the atomization and tunnel-perspective that makes people ONLY see their own feelings validated and have that tied to a label or 'team" they can get behind like sports fans. People need a standardized, required way to see who does and says what with neutrality and fact-based reporting, but people don't want that, they want their goddamn feelings stroked.