Hi all. Lemmy tends to be rather lefty, so I am not afraid to say that my politics lands on the left as far as US politics goes. So my uncertainty isn’t between left and right, but where I fall on the left.
Since around 2017 I have considered myself a liberal of some form. But I have to confess I did not start really doing a deep dive into politics until this current administration. And I have felt conflicted. I try to listen to different commentators. I’ve listened to Destiny, Hasan, Vaush, and various other people. All as reconnaisance - so to speak - and none of them because I necessarily subscribe to with any real confidence. I’m just trying to hear different perspectives.
If someone mentions something about some policy that was passed some time ago, or mention some political figure I’m not sure I’ve heard of, I go look in to it.
I thought this would help me settle on a solid political stance, but I think it has just caused me more confusion and uncertainty. How do you all do it?
You can’t really trust anybody who claims to give you this answer. What you can do is learn the foundational tools used to decieve and control people and then work backwards to find trustworthy ideas and politicians by process of elimination.
Logical fallacies are the building blocks of rhetoric. Weak arguments rely on them almost entirely. They can be harder to spot in leftist arguments but they’re still present.
Informal fallacies
You should also check out the foundations of authoritarian control to understand how entire groups of people fall for propaganda. Cults and right-wing authoritarians use the exact same playbook but the left is not free of this. Social media creates a silo effect that structurally enforces many of these.
Authoritarian control