• 10 Posts
  • 841 Comments
Joined 1 year ago
cake
Cake day: September 20th, 2023

help-circle



  • DJDarren@thelemmy.clubtoLefty Memes@lemmy.dbzer0.comPolitics venn
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    14
    arrow-down
    3
    ·
    2 days ago

    Aye, they do, but when it comes to voting they unify.

    Take the UK for example. Of our three main parties the Conservatives are, well, conservative, Labour are (ostensibly) leftwing, and Liberal Democrats are centre-left.

    In the end, most of my 44 years have been spent under a series of Tory governments because leftists who don’t see Labour as left enough don’t vote out of protest, and leftists who see Labour as too left will vote Lib Dem. Meanwhile, those in the centre or on the right will vote Tory. Sure, there are far right parties here, but they’re mostly cranks and outright racists.

    We only have a Labour government right now because the Tories went too lunatic and Starmer’s lot shifted enough to the centre to attract those who would vote LibDem.

    Prior to our last election, I saw a whole bunch of fellow lefties going apeshite because Starmer isn’t leftwing enough, and still crying that Corbyn was fucked over (which, to be fair, he was), so much so that I genuinely feared for five more years of Tories reaming us. There was very little room for pragmatism.



  • DJDarren@thelemmy.clubtoLefty Memes@lemmy.dbzer0.comPolitics venn
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    25
    arrow-down
    2
    ·
    2 days ago

    Most conservatives are able to band together regardless of whether another of them is too racist, or too capitalist. They’re able to look past flaws in that regard.

    Meanwhile, we lefties fight among ourselves for not being left enough, or for being too left. It’s why there are very few leftist governments.