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adjl posted...

The problem (according to you): The left doesn't tolerate people with differing viewpoints
The question: Which viewpoints in particular do you find aren't tolerated by the left?

Simplified further: Examples pl0x.

If you're talking a specific viewpoint on items held by the party at large then I would say none that come to mind. However when you get down to the individual groups and people and how they have chose the methods to enforce said ideologies the problem arises.

Let's take this very topic for instance. Blackscythe has accused me of being a bigot. I don't know why as at no point have I said anything in support of them. While I said I disagreed with the LGBT movement I also said I was fully in support of equality and whatnot and am a B who will likely transition if financial issues get resolved and my issues was with how the movement has gone about trying to implement it. Meanwhile Blackscythe said I am wholesale a bigot. Yet I am the one having to defend myself and not him.

When it comes to groups like BLM, I believe that what happened to George Floyd was horrible and that he was at least negligently manslaughtered and, even if he somehow wasn't, that doesn't excuse the massive amount of mistreatment that has happened to minority groups over the years that has come to light since. However they have also attempted to do things like reframe the narrative so that America was founded as effectively a slaveocracy is something I cannot accept and what the group has done, including violent riots that hurt innocents, is unacceptable in my eyes no matter the cause. Just because you are fighting for a good cause does not justify terrible actions in the name of said cause.

I oppose greedy corporations and wish to see the ones who gladly tread upon their employees for personal gain punished. I support a public option for government healthcare and am disgusted with the exorbitant costs forced onto the common man unable to pay. I don't believe illegal migrants are evil and should be deported necessarily and, instead, the issue is companies and people who gladly exploit their labor. I support addressing the many historic wrongs that have been done to LGBT, POC's, and women. How is any of that 'right-wing'?

The ONLY reason, and I mean ONLY, I voted for Trump was because my primary concern is with the CCP and with how they have violated effectively every single one of my principle by exploiting their populace for gain, engaged in ethnic cleansing and concentration camps, harvested political dissidents for organs, are actively trying to take land from other nations and trapping others in debt traps, and that's just the tip of the iceberg. I was convinced Biden would try to walk back relations with them to a more amicable and trade-focused situation and am very glad that hasn't happened yet. However I will not ever support any effort for close ties with the CCP so long as it remains effectively the closest thing to Nazi Germany in the present day. You want to 'oppose Nazi's? Why not oppose the people actually engaged in ethnic cleansing and nationalistic expansion with a merger of corporation and state?

That aside Trump is, unquestionably, a complete and total oaf who, at best, can be considered only slightly better than his political rivals because he is merely an oaf and that's being extremely generous. Hence why I found myself in a rather vicious hard place in having to decide between which of my principles mattered the most in 2020 and decided that opposing the regime of the CCP was the most important. Otherwise I find myself largely politically homeless with my goal and focus being on helping the poor and lower classes and opposing companies that treat their employees like machines to be replaced. Which, ultimately, is the core of my political identity.

I hope that explains my viewpoint well enough.

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