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Inequality and decades of painting anything left as evil communism.
Plus liberals would rather hand the reins to fascists than socialists.
The Left is for sure partly responsible.
There's a lot of things the 'left' will not address or even admit is a problem. There's a stubbornness to them that is undoing them.
On top of them not being actually on the left... And apparently hating the actual left to the point of happily destroying themselves.
So this is why people don't like your comment:
It's vague. You're not actually taking a specific stance on anything; you're just vaguely complaining about "things" that the left will not address, and "stubbornness", so that someone can fill in the gaps with something it would be reasonable to complain about.
It has the appearance of someone conflating "Leftism" with "The Democratic Party of the United States." That's generally bad form.
The context of this post is a worldwide rise in right-wing views, so the above point is even worse than normal. Whatever issue you're thinking of (which we don't know, because you're not actually taking a position, per the first point), it's possible it isn't associated with Leftism outside of the US at all.
No one can tell you that you're wrong if you never actually make a specific claim, right?
What are you actually trying to say? It's extremely vague and hard to get at your point.
Not everyone is american bud
There's an actual German party called The Left. You capitalized it, yet I still don't think you're referring to them. You're just dumb and barely literate. You go on to out it in quotes. ??? If you are referring to the party, they won locally and are on the rise. They're offering something the center doesn't, an off-road to an unpopular war and sanctions that's only hurt them and helped American billionaires. They're offering something the right doesn't, Mamdani-like reforms in Berlin.
Democracy works when you offer what your electorate need, not what your donor demand.
????
If you switch the first two instances of "left" with "US Democrats" then it kinda makes sense. Maybe that's it?
Even though it is a right-of-center party on the global stage, there are a LOT of people in the US who think the Democrats are literally far left wing, full-on Marxists. That's what they are told by the people who engage their attention.
I wish.