From my reaction to a Facebook post.
WHEN I left Manila in the late 1990s, I was nursing wounds from the organized Lefts RA/RJ shudder (which still hit me somehow when I was living in New York City, but I digress on that subject).
The divide between Left and Right in America is no brainer. Before he died in 2010, Howard Zinn predicted a worst divide that'd rival the 1860s civil war. (That was before Donald Trump was even invited to the Tea Party.)
The liberals and progressives are like the old Left vs old Right. The liberals imbue a stance that reminds me a lot of the old Conservative elitism. The ideological overreach is high purity exceptionalism (sic). Meanwhile, the progressives held on to old advocacies, esp. anti war and pro working class.
In the last election, the Democratic Party ran on a platform of vilification over tight, clear policies or gut level imperatives. Of course the "hate Trump" narrative was the anchor as The D “talked" with the working class and his relatively dovish foreign policy playbook appealed to the progressives.
The internet, of course, aided in pushing the new Left inwards. They relied on juvenile memes and third hand info over old school groundwork out there, community organizing, tactical alliance pursued calmly. Still, the Left refuses to accept its flaws and continues the insults, post-Nov 5.
Conservatives will always be conservative per tradition, add religiosity. But the Left continues to widen its crack without even knowing it or acknowledging it. 🌬💨💓
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