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by kwere 603 days ago
Authoritarianism is present in a lot of postmodern "leftist" movements that captivate younger women votes. it's justified with "fig leaves" reasons like curtailing free speech to contain hate speech, limiting liberties in the name of safety, Coercing personal behavior for greater causes like climate change, giving privileges to certain groups in the name of "penitence to ancestral sins", etc....

Isolationism is an issue that is hurting women too, way less than males as women tend to have stronger social networks

While at scale there isnt a trend of Reactionism, it looks that there is a greater political polarization and advocacy that compared to past generations hinders relations between ideologically different/incompatible groups

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Ignoring the more irritating leftists for a moment, most of the left is grappling with finding solutions to real problems. It's not "fuck you, change your life to stop global warming". It's "oh shit, we need to stop global warming and dramatic actions are needed. What do we do?". They are questions in need of answers, and no one is going to like all of the answers. No one ever does. Some answers may be authoritarian, but it's not a desire for authoritarianism driving these ideologies, it's a desire for solutions and too many people have a blind eye to the consequences of their proposed solutions.

Maybe that's too forgiving of a take, but I think you're take is too accusatory.

The right just openly supports authoritarianism for authoritarianism's sake.