• TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    they are popular because they provide simple answers to complex issues.

    People like that. Esp younger folks.

    Just like the alt right is so popular with them, because it gives them simple answers.

    Left doesn’t have simple answers. Wants you to listen to a college course type of lecture on every issue… people don’t care about that. They want a simple soundbyte they can emotionally respond to. Left is very poor at that… there are some examples, but they dont’ really get much traction outside of leftist/socialist circles.

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      2 months ago

      Also you can spend thirty seconds as a right winger and have them all tell you that you’re great, important, clever, worthwhile, and all those things – spend twenty years dedicating your adult life to leftwing values and you’ll still get spat on by your political peers because your opinion on some obscure issue is 2% different to theirs.