Compass and Class. Where do you fall? (Discussion)

[u/Sleep__]

I believe that the 2024 election has served as a fitting bookend for the "culture war era" that, by my estimation, began with Gamergate and was at its height between #metoo and Covid.

While class consciousness is, by nature, a school of thought belonging to a majority, during the culture war years a critique of wealth inequality would unequivocally be categorized as leftist and "woke;" forever bastardizing the public perception of the "conservative:liberal" band.

I would describe my political beliefs as traditionally conservative.

-Conservation of tradition and resource via tolerance and temperance -Anti-expansionist, anti-globalist -Rights for everyone to fuck, shoot, and smoke pretty much whatever they want -Preservation of social order by distribution of housing and resources to those in the most need -Return to the gold standard and implement significant capital gains taxes to fuel societal order and infrastructure -Corporate entities that harm citizens should face severe penalties and executives should be held criminally responsible -A nation is strongest when its citizens have access to free education, healthcare, sustenance. -A nation is strongest when the majority of the population are well compensated for labour work, and are enabled to develop intellectually and artistically.

So, fellow proletariats and working class citizens, how do you reply when your uncle asks which side of the aisle you're on?

I someone asks me that question I generally tell them to shut up, because it's never not a loaded question.

[u/jpotion88]

Right to fuck, shoot, smoke whatever they want. I’m all on board for that as long is it’s not applied to children 😆 I’m not sure if your talking about drugs or meat with the smoking but both are good. I’m definitely anti expansionist. That ship should have sailed in 1945. I like my freedoms. And mainly I don’t want other people to be fucked with unless they are harming someone else. I don’t necessarily want a return to the gold standard, but I don’t want to keep running an unsustainable deficit. It will get us sooner or later. I think I fall bottom left but halfway to the arrow

[u/Sleep__ → u/jpotion88]

Haha yes, there are definitely a few big considerations for personal freedoms. That tricky double edged sword of "Freedom To" and "Freedom From" is hard to balance. But I'm not an absolutist.

I'm definitely talking about drugs and meat.

With the gold standard thing I ultimately just want a way of keeping the rate at which managed wealth is grown accountable to something tangible. When the market is overvalued and overextended the difference is often made up by the working class; that is to say the working class's surplus existence is stolen to pay the piper.