I hear people say things like “if Obama (or anyone left of Republicans) did what Trump did, there would be hell to pay.”
Why isn’t that argument taken more seriously by people on the left as an implicit admission that the left is politically weaker or less effective at wielding power?
If one side “can’t get away with” actions that the other can, doesn’t that suggest a real imbalance rather than moral superiority?
Left politics generally supports social change, equality, and greater government intervention in the economy to help the marginalized, often favoring progress over tradition, and is associated with values like social justice, workers’ rights, and expanded public services.
I hope that helps.
The right also supports all that. It’s just disagree about who should benefit and what the government should intervene about.
Oh yes, the well known progressive right 😂.
The right naturally doesn’t support any of that to any extent. They’re about their own wallets (that’s what you meant with benefit I suppose). Words have meanings, my apologist buddy.
the left supports their own wallets too. everyone does.
nobody is voting to give their money away to other people.
There’s more to ethical politics than just money. Might not seem like it from below.
there is no ethics in politics. there is only power.
the ethics is what the people in power say it is.
hence why the dems eat their own over a misunderstoodjoke, and the republicans promote child rapists.
You’re confused. Morals ≠ ethics.
There’s plenty of ethical basis in politics. You’re confused again. The US shit show ≠ Realpolitik.
Glad we clarified that for you.