True Leftism vs. Alan Grayson-style Leftism

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Alan Grayson-style leftism built the American middle class, freed the slaves, liberated Europe from the Nazis, and put a man on the goddamn moon.

[Lief 🗽]

The U.S. labor movement was never really explicitly socialist, and certainly not the one that existed during the passage of the New Deal, the GI Bill, the Great Society, etc., and they never had liberals "by the balls"; Lincoln was not a "pen pal" of Karl Marx, that's ridiculous; the Soviets didn't liberate anyone from anything, just replaced one authoritarian regime with another (I guess you could more accurately say that Alan Grayson-style liberalism liberated Western Europe from Naziism and the threat of Stalinism); and putting a man on the moon is one of the greatest scientific and industrial accomplishments of human civilization, shut up.