I could see a Trump party on the right, a Yang party on the left, and a third pa...

TomSwirly · on Sept 10, 2021

Yang is not a leftist. He's not even left of the Democratic party, and they aren't a left-wing party.

There's a simple litmus test.

Do you think workers should control the means of production? You're a socialist.

Do you think capital should? You're a capitalist.

The Republicans, Yang, and the Democrats are all capitalist parties.

willcipriano · on Sept 10, 2021

Human beings are really funny.

Ask someone in a neighborhood about how many houses should be built and virtually all of them will tell you that theirs should have been the last one.

Ask someone about what is left and right in politics and they will move the middle around so they aren't either on the far left or right. As if their personal political opinions are some sort of core fundamental property that the universe is organized around.

Looking back in history, humans did the same thing with the solar system. We just tend to assume that we are at the middle of things.