I always considered myself a centrist. Of course, over the last 15 years the one side has become so damn batshit crazy it looks like I’m a party line voter simply based on my voting record.
I really don’t trust models that assert that tankies are on the left.
Left wing politics is about distributing political power as widely and evenly as possible. Tankies are authoritarians who like autocracy brutally enforced. That’s the opposite.
Vanishingly few people who use the term know what it means, who invented it, or why it’s currently in circulation.
It’s just a pejorative now. More often than not used to tell anti-war activists to shut up, because being anti-war is no different than surrendering to The Evil People.
I always considered myself a centrist. Of course, over the last 15 years the one side has become so damn batshit crazy it looks like I’m a party line voter simply based on my voting record.
I’m sure you mean the far left ultra radical anti-American tankie-sexuals, right?
I really don’t trust models that assert that tankies are on the left.
Left wing politics is about distributing political power as widely and evenly as possible. Tankies are authoritarians who like autocracy brutally enforced. That’s the opposite.
Vanishingly few people who use the term know what it means, who invented it, or why it’s currently in circulation.
It’s just a pejorative now. More often than not used to tell anti-war activists to shut up, because being anti-war is no different than surrendering to The Evil People.