Why are right wing groups so effective at convincing the general public that they're actually left wing? I'd argue they're even better at it than left wing groups are.
>anyone i don't like is a leftist
it's that simple
Both the following remarks are rather tangential:
I was very curious about something related which is how so many left wingers become habituated to right wing talking points or even positions, like discussions on: immigration, identity, and identarian/nationalist foreign policy. I myself have been duped before by a shallow economism, and noninternationalism effectively justifying all of these things, but I don't know if this is the common trend.
Unrelated, I doubt this is exactly what you mean judging by the examples but there is something to there being a liberal enlightened humanism that dominates the discourse, and is very difficult to escape. It's as if via misunderstanding that anything outside of this view is seen as unthinkable. The essentialism we see shares a common space, but seems largely orthogonal, beyond of course the essentialism concerning the human agent. Perhaps essentialism could even be surrounding the liberal enlightened humanist etc. view.
The actual left has been successfully decimated and pushed to the fringes. Left and right only mean anything in comparison to something if they mean anything at all this point. That's why mutts call democrats communists while in rest of the world they would pass as hard right wing fuck the poor party even if slightly socially liberal.
Also who the fuck is going the call them out on it?