Asking this here instead of asklemmy because its a political question
Recently I find Hayao Miyazaki as an influential person who has shaped my progressive / left leaning views and I want to what influential thing or person helped shaped or start your progressive / left leaning views.
I can’t remember a time where I had political opinions that weren’t left-leaning. It’s weird to be rightwing when you’re working class, or at least that’s how it was when I was young.
“Rich people have to be rich so they can create businesses that employ poor people and make them middle class,” is an incredibly pernicious lie. My dad worked for a union just whole life and I still started my political journey as a conservative.
If conservatism wasn’t just so plainly wrong about everything my entire life, I might still believe that. But like, other than winning the Cold War, I’m not sure conservatives have ever been right about anything in my lifetime. And even that was done using questionable methods that make the world less safe 35 years later.
See, that kind of thing never quite took hold in my country until Facebook became the dominant social media. Even when the center-left betrayed the working class in a major way in the early 00s, I didn’t get the impression that there was a big shift to the right. Even now, I think that rightwing working class members mostly just ignore how openly pro-billionaire our rightwing parties are and blame all their issues on working class foreigners, LGBT+, environmental regulations etc.
So… same as America. Except Democrats betrayed working class Americans earlier than the 00’s.
That’s completely different from what you described in your previous comment, i.e. a working class member who is explicitly pro-billionaire.
Got you. Yes, you are right there is a subtle difference there I had failed to parse. Sorry.