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I'd describe myself as a centerist because I'm sick to death of all this manufactured right vs left divisive bullshit.
The real problem is the ultra-rich hoarding all the wealth and imposing their psychotic beliefs on everyone else. I don't see that as a leftist POV, I see it as a realistic take on a real social problem.
That's the whole point of the actual political left. So, not the US democrats who are right wing, but actual lefties.
Pretty much all our problems are rooted in this. What you may perceive as identity politics is just attacks the right orchestrates on some minority to distract us so we do not realize they are robbing us of everything the have. Be it abortion, be it trans rights, be it whatever other topics where liberals seem to have an opposite opinion compared to republicans, that's all distraction.
The rich don't actually believe that gay people or trans people or immigrants or women who have an abortion are a problem. Because somehow, none of those things are a problem for them if one of them is gay or trans or an immigrant or has an abortion. That's how you know it's all horse shit. And people? People gobble it all up because they foolishly believe it makes them part of the in-group that they will never belong to.
Basically, the differences between the democrats and the republicans are mostly artificial. The topics they "argue" about are topics they could not care less about, it just keeps you distracted. Literally Kang and Kodos. Now don't get me wrong, I am not saying that it doesn't matter what you vote for, because as horrible as the US democrats are, they are less horrible than the republicans. But really, what needs to happen is that people start to understand what is happening to them and to tear down this whole system and build a new and better one.
Rich people are the problem, and rich people are relying on the right to keep making them richer.