Excerpt from this Substack post: https://nickrafter.substack.com/p/the-rent-may-always-be-too-damn-high
this post was submitted on 23 Aug 2026
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This comes down to a lot of purposeful obsfucation of politics and terminology as well as subpar education in that matter.
Example, those people saying "The left" mean left of their view points and understand. But without clear definitions of their intent and meaning it becomes a pointless mire for discussion. You spend more time educating and getting clarification that you're not likely to ever make it to the discussion at hand.
A lot of what I and many USA citizens will have to do is just understand what different positions are, what certain terms mean. When they say "liberal" they mean a vague definition of "the left." Where as when I say it, I mean neo-liberals in particular which is a conservative ideology that still believes in Laissez-faire capitalism.
Political philosophy has never been taught in schools and a two party system means that there's little coherance in party positions besides "big tent, urban" or "big tent, rural"