-> I know DoubleR said people like this are "extremely rare" but you have proven that to be a false statement.
It's a tough pill to swallow, but if you swallow it, then you are more aware.
There are 2 types of left wing:
- Steelman left (10% of the left; they convert the most amount of right wingers to their side, but they will also be converted often. Ex: Gavin Newsom, Kyle Kulinski, Dean Withers). A lot of people used to be here, and then converted to Trumpism (Elon Musk, Joe Rogan, Andrew Cuomo, etc). They try and understand your perspective, and they refute it.
- Labeling left (90% of the left; Vaush, Hasan, blue haired people, a lot of LGBT people, especially the transgenders). They find right wing views so offensive that they would rather right wingers keep their opinions to themselves than change their minds. This is because to them, all right wing views are hate speech and they don't want to deal with hate speech; they would want to outlaw it (and they may deny wanting to kill Kirk; but it's because they are afraid of backlash). The left wingers that preferred the bear to the man (or would respect women selecting that option) are in this group. They will go as left wing as the Overton window lets them.
If there was a poll that said that 58% of left wingers support Kirk's death, then they would be on board with it (openly). Everything the left hates about the stereotypical MAGA person is applicable to the labeling left for the other side. They hated Gavin Newsom for being a sellout until he started trashing Trump (and only then did they cheer). If Cenk Uygur did it first, then they would love Cenk Uygur. But they give a pass to Gavin.
It's a team sport to them. Actual policy thinking they find boring, so if the polls allowed for it, then they would advocate for killing Charlie Kirk openly because it's, "taking down the other side".
The labeling left would ban all right wing speech if they could get away with it. The steelmanning left wouldn't.
The labeling left likes the steelmanning left (assuming 100% agreement) but they will criticize the steelmanning left for reaching out to the right. They did this with Pete Buttigieg.
People on DART are going to be disproportionally more of the steelmanning types (I mean, it's a debate site); but even then; there are many labelers.
With your generic left winger, they get internally stressed out at someone with right wing opinions because they view them as regressive.
They conflate technological progress with progressivism (and I would be scared of right wing policies if I equated them with losing technological abilities because I love technology). What they fail to realize is 10 years in the future, our policies are going to be more progressive by 10 years. That might be more left or right wing; it might be a mix. Technological progress is not the same as progressivism; the word, "progressivism" is just there for marketing purposes that the democrats came up with in 2006 or so because when your election map looks like this:
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(where bush arguably did better than Trump in 2024)
and the American electorate doesn't pay attention to politics much then, you become desperate to win. So what you do is you think:
"Hey, we want to change the status quo, correct? Well, then lets call ourselves anti status quo (aka progressive) to win younger and more gullible voters over because they will fall for nice sounding words".
They then get Obama to run for POTUS, marketing it as, "The first black POTUS" (Obama wasn't a race hustler so I'm not blaming Obama; but many of his supporters were) and he did pretty well:
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Deep red states today like Florida and Ohio Obama won 2x.
The left sees the success; so they bring in Hillary in 2016 (who unlike Obama, made her identity characteristic a major voting reason). Trump had a message (which if you didn't agree, then at least Trump had something, Clinton just relied on her gender).
He won and lost in 2020 over COVID (if COVID didn't happen, then Trump probably would have won).
But in 2024, Trump won the popular vote, and the left (rather than conceding what they thought caused them to lose) decided to start expelling large groups of their party (mainly the steelmanning left wingers) to purify the party.
And because of the left base's desire to commit cancel culture to even people that voted against Trump in 2024, elections in NYC (between communist Mandami and right winger Cuomo (he said if he loses, then he's moving to Florida) ) are a toss up despite Cuomo's SA allegations (which if that's your reason for preferring Mandami over Cuomo, then you should know that SA is only a misdemeanor, so it's like refusing to vote for someone because they had a DUI).
The left needs to learn a very hard lesson about their cancel culture; Mandami does the opposite of cancelling people; but stereotypes of your party influence the candidate even if the candidate doesn't want them to.
No matter how Mandami acts, he's a trojan horse.
To stop the cancel culture from the labeling left, you should support Cuomo as an anti Mandami vote. Mandami is a trojan horse and should be treated as such. Cuomo winning is the cure to the cancel culture left.