I am and always have been on the left. Now, more than ever, the handwriting is on the wallβwe will have increasing threats and violence, against our values of equality, womenβs rights and social justice. We may have the numbers on our side, but gerrymandering, impotent Democratic politicians, corruption, and a captured judiciary will make our political and economic ambitions impossible to achieve.
We should acknowledge this now, and take arms while we still can, learning how to care for and use weapons. I pray the day to use them never comes, but if it does, there simply is no reason to be unprepared. R/socialistra
I just started looking into the emacs and have only installed evil mode. For some reason every newline emacs indents the lines above and leaves the newline with no indentation. Creating a sort of backwards indentation, I must be doing something really wrong but I have no idea what causes this.
The indentation in my config.org
In that example, I want each line with fs to be indented rightwards. What causes this?
The constellation of trends I see are this:
-The major Asian powers are at risk of either turning mask-off fascist, stagnating, or both due to climate change, population decline in East Asia, and deteriorating job quality due to automation/robotics (this also affects lower-skill Westerners, many of whom are immigrants or minorities).
-Africa and Latin America, as well as their diasporas, are often associated in the popular consciousness with gun violence and police brutality, and the Middle East and North Africa are struggling with religious extremism. Many of these are also emerging countries struggling with the same automation and job quality issues as more advanced ones.
-Certain economic trends (Covid, the collapse of just-in-time supply chains, the microchip shortage) are presenting a purely economic logic for increasing the self-sufficiency of nations and hurting diverse or externally-oriented countries (for instance the immigration hub of Canada, the export-heavy Asian tigers, and the tourism-based West Indies).
-Although there's been a bit of a pause in the US with Trump gone, the backlash towards non-Western immigration seems to be pretty strong and in some cases is spreading to well-integrated Asian, Eastern European, and Latin American communities. Social media means that countries - even relatively homogeneous ones - are more divided ideologically than ever before.
-The US economy seems to be doing pretty well with only Biden's modest reforms, which may reduce appetite for sweeping change.
-Climate change is expected to disproportionately affect latitudes closer to the Equator as well as in tropical cyclone regions, which includes almost every country with a majority of non-"white" peoples except for Mongolia and maybe the -stans.
-Rising natural life expectancies (outside of things like bad habits, addiction, violence, suicide, accidents) mean that in a growing number of countries the political elite and the voting-age population are trying to regulate things they don't understand. Generational divides are yawning in the US, EU, UK, and Japan at least.
-The Covid vaccines that are allowing countries to open normally are very much dependent on American big pharma and its profit margins either for production (Pfizer) or R&D (Moderna). This could reduce appetite for cost-cutting or heavy corporate taxation, especially if innovation in hominids is driven by ludicrous profit margins.
-Right-wingers and to a degree center-rightists in E
... keep reading on reddit β‘Please forgive me for the awkward phrasing of my question. To elaborate, I've noticed over the last couple of years an increasingly overt trend among a wing of the English-language left toward right-wing populist positions, communities and politics, and I'm wondering if there are any examples in U.S. history of similar circumstances/movements.
I'm wary of providing examples, as I'm certain many of you will disagree with this declaration of their beliefs, and because I formerly viewed many of them in a much different light due to their contributions to causes I believe in. But it feels necessary, so, accepting that some of these might be line-cases, I'd suggest this sect to include a number personalities who commonly appear here and other semi-active left-wing subreddits such as: Caitlin Johnstone, Krystal Ball, Jimmy Dore, Glenn Greenwald and others. Even if you argue with this perspective on their shared political/ideological positions, it's hard just looking at who boosts their platforms to say that they're not increasingly associating with right-wing communities at the very least.
The direction of this movement (generally; I don't think it's highly aligned, although certain topics or short-term pushes often see them coming together around the same outspoken position) seems to run from a left-libertarian base toward an increasingly right-populist ideal. Typically this loose sect employs rhetoric more associated with the left, and only criticizes the left from further left, but on many given issues its members align politically and ideologically with the right (even if they don't outwardly state it, since typically these positions are dressed primarily in criticism).
Anyway, now that I've explained, my question is as per the post's title... I'm aware of some of the most well-known international examples of Third Positionism (as a tentative and imprecise definition; I'm not confident in saying that's what this is in earnest), but I'm particularly interested in whether anyone knows of an American precedent for such a movement, perhaps in the 70s/80s or the Interwar Period?
