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Because leftists are bad at uniting and centrists have no principles other than compromise, so they are easily pulled rightward.

At least this one is on the way out. Ours is on the way in. :(

Remember this playbook for when yours is supposed to be on his way out.

What this guy is pushing is far more in agreement with US administration policy than what the opposition supports. The problem is that the South Korean population doesn't support what either he or the US want. For example, the SK population (and recent presidents) have far more of a peaceful attitude towards the north than is tolerable for the US. As an example, when polled on supporting Ukraine (after the rumors that NK is sending support to Russia), South Koreans are 82% against it.

https://www.reuters.com/world/south-koreans-remain-opposed-s...

6 day old story, btw.

Hmm, weird. I run one of the larger korean music platforms and interviewing Koreans I'd have said the opposite with regards to the North-- that is, they do not want to reunify and it's the furthest thing from their minds beyond that they hate the draft.

I noticed even the North doesn't seem to be eying reunification seriously either, taking steps to destroy monuments like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arch_of_Reunification earlier this year.

Because we've collectively been propagandised out of any sense of class consciousness. We don't have class solidarity with our fellow workers. Instead we see ourselves as Jeff Bezos-in-waiting, "temporarily embarrassed millionaires" [1]. We have been manipulated into hyper-individualism and division across pointless lines like race or gender identity as a means of preventing labor solidarity.

Depending on which country you're talking about, leftist momentum has neutered if not outright eviscerated. In the US, the New Deal Democrats dominated Congress for 60 years only to sell their souls to the same neoliberals and corporate overlords as the right-wing.

So now we have rising fascism because there's no counter-balance to capitalism and fascism is, depending on who you listen to, either the political wing of capitalism or it's simply capitalism in crisis.

People from the 1930s and 1940s are still alive yet here we are again. The Red Scare did unimaginable damage to our society.

So this isn't new. It's simply the culmination of a 50+ year long project.

[1]: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/328134-john-steinbeck-once-...

Sounds like over philosophizing, could it just be that corruption (i.e, are Biden/Harris the most qualified people in the USA to run the country? If not that is a form of corruption.) is at an all time high, and inequality is growing. If you look at US elections you see the educated elite in NY and CA verses the rest of the country.

It's hard to imagine that corruption is a rational, or even irrational, reason to vote in Trump.

And the easiest way to reduce inequality is to raise taxes on the rich, which voters also apparently don't support if they're voting Republican.

lol, hard to imagine? You said it not me, didn't even mention Trump, so you imagined it.

Raising taxes on the rich doesn't work because they don't have income in the same way ordinary people do. They take out loans against their assets, use shell companies, use company credit cards etc

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