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Benjamin Cole's avatar

It is one of the deep ironies of our time that so-called “progressives” push policies that are very much against the interests of the local working class while political Parties that are increasingly able to mobilise working class votes are labelled “extreme Right”.--Lorenzo

It is double whacky in the US.

Not only (roughly speaking) what you say is true, but then many on the "alt-left" have taken up the cause of Hamas (after Oct. 7!), and global Islam. In institutional form, the most illiberal movement/religion on the planet.

Wearing the keffiyeh in academia (in the US, almost a totally left-wing culture) is nearly required.

What happened to the unions and the Democratic Party of my youth?

Elections are a funny business, and who knows, but it sure looks like America's "left wing" is courting defeat.

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Chesterton's Fence's avatar

Nice travelogue, Prague is on my short list, being an American of Czech ancestry.

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