Downes 🍁 on Nostr: 5. But the story told by the left is a chimera. It suggests we can return to these ...

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But the story told by the left is a chimera. It suggests we can return to these progressive values before (or worse, instead of) a return to economic prosperity.

And it ignores, or even (in a spirit of collectivism) disparages the economic aspirations of those who seek a return to economic prosperity for the average worker.

To the extent that it focuses on prosperity, the left is an ideology of opposition and negativity, using the rhetoric of 'fight' rather than 'build'.

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