Went on All today and saw many posts celebrating Sen. Feindtein's recent passing. Why is she so hated on the left?
I'm not from California, so I don't know much about her; but this genuinely surprised me, especially how vicious and vitriolic the comments were. What's going on there?
She's not. She's hated by the Far Left, because she wasn't far left enough. Don't rely on Lemmy to give you a balanced, accurate picture of the political landscape.
our Overton window has gotten shoved so far right that anything vaguely to the left of center is viewed as “far left” (conservatives are even happy to shove center-right in with “far left”)
Overton window – not the actual politics shifting so much as our view of those politics has shifted – instead of sitting over a centrist position keeping both left-wing and right-wing in view, the American window is positioned over right-wing bringing far-right into the perception of being acceptable and moving left-wing into the perception of being extremist
I don't really get what you're saying. What right wing extremist views are more centrist now then say the 90's?
I kind of get this feeling like you're about to give me some rant about "alt-right" behavior talking points, but people were definitely more sexist, ableist, transphobic, and racist back then compared to now it's not even comparable. People were also way more religious, which is pretty auth right compared to now. Am I missing something?
I think in the "real world" we've slid left for sure, but political discourse is more of a doughnut than a box now. Algorithms and engagement metrics have pushed content people read to be more extreme and enraging. People also like to join insular communities and hate bond over caricatures of their enemies. Reddit has many popular subreddits to that effect. Lemmy has a lot of left ones, but it seems like most of the right ones were driven off.
On a global Geopolitical scale our(American) Left/Right perceptions have moved gradually right. What we consider the moderate right is closer to the far right in most other places. The same happens on the left. Our moderate left politicians are closer to the center of the scale, and the far left is more akin to liberal parties in other places.
The American scale has always been skewed this way, it’s not necessarily that it happened in the last 10-15 years, more that from the start it was shifted.
I don't know, I don't listen to Tucker Carlson. Maybe you should go to his house and start screaming "down with the bourgeoisies!" until you start realizing you're not relevant.
You made an idiot statement, I'm sorry for assuming you got it from Tucker and co.
Nobody on the left was complaining that she's not far left. Everyone pissed at her was because she refused to retire despite being a husk of what she once was
I mean, it's pretty clear to me from reading the negative comments in the posts commemorating her death that they took issue with the fact that she wasn't 100% progressive in all respects, that she believed in working with conservative politicians to get things done via compromise, and that she didn't think corporate suits and cops were all evil. In other words, she was a moderate Democrat.
So, from what I can tell, that's the why, but the who really does matter, because you were specifically asking about the comments you're seeing here on Lemmy, and Lemmy is disproportionately representative of Far Left Anarcho-Communists (i.e. whack jobs with a lot of passion, but little intelligence). You wouldn't see these kinds of criticisms of Feinstein in a more balanced political forum as they'd get drowned out by the sensible people.
Edit: Here's a good article detailing her complicated relationship with the gay community, which also sheds some light on why she wasn't the perfect liberal.