[sharikone]

In my experience the ideology of the left has a lot of appeal among the rich who want to just feel they are good.

And the right has some unhinged aggressive component of "see, being good is hypocrisy, so it's better to be bad".

[rnd0]

>In my experience the ideology of the left has a lot of appeal among the rich who want to just feel they are good.

In my experience, you have the left (which is interested in addressing class issues and income inequality), liberals (who are interested in corporate-friendly non-threatening issues that don't threaten the economic status quo such as identity politics) and then you have the right which seems to be made up of nihilists of one form or another such as the Alt-right and Evangelicals (Christians making policy on the assumption that Jesus is coming back is a form of Nihilism imo).

I'm not honestly convinced that there is any kind of substantive left wing in the United States. You can point to Bernie Sanders but his policies are solid, mainstream New Deal Democratic -that might pass for left today, but it wouldn't have a few decades back.

[Gibbon1]

I'm an Atheist for what it worth but..

> making policy on the assumption that Jesus is coming back is a form of Nihilism imo

If someone longs for and welcomes the end times. And wants to push it forward into their own life time. They ain't playing on the team they think they are.

[rnd0]

Amen to that!