The left used to be the main force for gun rights in the country. Some prominent American leftist who's name escapes me cited the gun on the family mantle as the source of America's greatness.
Public healthcare: Works better than America's network of private insurance companies. This will lead to govt regulation of things like the amount of sugar in pop/soda, but it is worth the cost. Insurance companies and/or the lack of a safety net already effectively restricts liberties so these types of unnoticed regulations should be less of an issue.
Inequality: Markets are a good idea, but having all of the wealth funneling to the top is dangerous. The left is dominated by the part of the elite that have a paternal mindset and savior complex, but that does not change the fact that they come from the system championed by the right.
Social issues: The Right hate to hear this but they are still dominated by the religious moral majority. American, Canadian and British conservatives would probably ban weed if they could (In the USA they still do). They're anti-gay, anti-trans, and want to regulate areas such as free expression. I'm not hyped about the LGBT subculture, but they should have the right to do their own thing.
Discourse: The left does this but its worth mentioning. The Right are knowingly misinforming people and allying themselves with questionable people. Paul Joseph Watson, Sargon, Ian Miles Cheong, Epoch Times, Falun Gong, the Moonies, OANN, and all that lie or are just simply morally dubious. I know many of them should know better. Some like Cheong admit to lying to further an idea, and others like Sargon should know better than to call Biden a communist. I know that Sargon is aware of the differences between Marxism, Marxist-Leninism, and various types of early socialism. They know better, but yet lie. They embrace anti-intellectualism on issues like climate change, COVID, and race just to support arguments that honestly don't need anti-intellectualism to stand. The rampant conspirism and lying is simply not healthy.
Militarism: Max Boot ("We should patrol the world like we patrolled the wild west") became a Democrat because of Trump, but Trump still greatly increased spending on the military-industrial complex. Conservatives in most every country generally support unnecessary military spending and conflict. In the case of the USA/Canada/Britain this is driven by cultish evangelicals who think supporting Israel will bring on the apocalypse and questionable big business interests.
Racism:
Racist Republicans exist and have had racist agendas. Aspiring for equality and meritocracy requires rejecting such ideas. The poster of this video mistakenly frame this as the parties switching on racism. I see it more as the Republicans embracing small government southern whites to finally become a national party as the Dems become more big government. The Dems did not stop being racist, but the Reps sure as hell did become more racist.
My biggest gripe with the mainstream left and self-described socialists is that they are effectively neoliberals.
Their rhetoric is about neoliberalism being a great evil but yet they support neoliberals. Globohomo is a conspiracy buzzword, but it is an apt description of the mainstream left.
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Their rejection of free speech and sudden love for giant corporations is the final nail in the coffin for me ever supporting them again.
