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So all of these answers have some truth to them, but they are also missing a key factor. The heritage foundation exists because they are paid tons of money by billionaires to sit around and come up with ways to strengthen their dominance over society. The left simply doesn’t have many supporters with that level of wealth. While it’s possible to do this on a voluntary basis it’s a lot harder than getting paid to do it.
What about famous Soros who pays for leftie propaganda /s
Something of a joke that Soros made his fortune speculating against the economic fallout of the post-Soviet Eastern Bloc's collapsing currencies. His fortune was effectively harvested from the skyrocketing inflation that plagued countries like Bulgaria, Romania, Poland, and Hungary as they lost access to cheap publicly produced consumer goods and real estate.
Then he turned his fortune towards philanthropy in those same failing countries and that made him "woke". So he became an icon of right-wing hate, as a result.
I am firmly convinced that left and right now longer actually exist. Instead we have a cyclops of oppression.
You're not wrong.
The only time we see Democrats pretend to be leftist is when they have no meaningful power to enact change. They're conservatives in sheep's clothing.
I get why people downvoted this, but you're not entirely incorrect. The two "sides" do exist, they just both happen to be on the same side and aren't entirely opposites like "left" and "right" would imply.
Until we see a socioeconomic party platform that wants similar reforms to what is seen in the Nordics presently when it comes to policy, there's no true "left" party in the US, IMO