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NoMeLx22x posted...

Wait what's the problem with this distinction?

It's a reasonable distinction and what that I think people actually do legitimately draw, but I feel like most of the time "I'm not a liberal I'm a leftist" tends to be brought up in arguments against people on the right and it's generally just a precursor to both sides "agreeing" that liberals are bad but without any sort of additional movement on behalf of the right wing person.

It's like if someone said the Affordable Care Act sucks and you were like "Yeah, you're right" and your reasons are that it's a half assed stop gap measure from a Republican governor that generally doesn't accomplish what it set out to do and their reasons are because it creates death panels and if you can't afford healthcare you deserve to die. It would be perfectly reasonable from a leftist perspective to attack the ACA, but it just gets weird when you get chummy chummy with conservatives who hate it for a completely different reason who don't think your universal healthcare alternatives are any better.