Historically speaking why does western society only move leftwards?

>homos, trannies, and fucking abortion are main constitutes of the left
maybe you should be busier finishing high school then wasting your youth on Veeky Forums

>identity politics isn't the central tenet of western leftism today

Were you alive in 2016?

>new

Question is whether you were you alive before 2016 you fucking juvenile embarrassment?

Why so triggered? Identity politics has been the main identifier of leftism for awhile now.

The fact that idpol is a central tenet shows just how right wing we are.

So-called "far left radicals" backed the centre-right Hilary.

He actually asked a decent question.
What teh fuck is wrong with all the fat amerilards on here either larping as epic communist nazi basher or as "mY GENES ARE 1,8% WESTERN EUROPEAN DEFEND THE WHITE RACE NATSOC BEST OMFG"

Its always these two extremes slinging shit at each other. No middle ground, no one even dares to look at the situation from the standpoint of the other.

makes me sick.

And by the way were leaning left because the nazis destroyed any chance on a decent right wing movement by sperging out on a world trembling scale. Thats why right wing is inherently evil in this world. (which it isnt actually)

You what? Half of hillarys backing was BLM, Muslims, dykes and la Raza types.

>detaching class struggle from leftism
Read some history

>he thinks neoliberalism is leftism
wow man no need to trigger me this hard I just might write a textwall on my safespace tumblr hugbox about your evil cis-white racist bullying

nigga, you are just as much as product of delusional idpol fantasies as your ''leftists''

Historically speaking today is actually really far right because you don't see true communists trying to execute big business types like Lenin and Mao did. You see identity politics SJWs complaining on Twitter and then beating up other dead beat losers at rallies. Actual capitalist factory owners and the like are far safer now than in the 10s - 30s.

those subjectivies are interpellations of neolibralism and represent the victory of the right wing

The shift from relatively central Keynesian economic practice of the pre-1970s postwar America to the free market centric neoliberalism is also a move to the right, rather then left.

The West is economically far-right but culturally far-left. It's not completely one or the other. The traditional dichotomy is useless anyway.
The socialist movement is dead but so is traditional conservatism and nationalism.

This. Bernie was the only relic of the Left have in awhile and look how well the DNC fucked him over

At the same time we're infinitely more socially liberal. Women's emancipation, atheism, anti colonialism etc were all left wing goals.

the younger generation is having less sex and doing less drugs than their parents

>Historically speaking why does western society only move leftwards?
All societies adopt to industrialisation and urbanisation by liberalising. You perceive this as moving "leftwards" but it isn't. The same thing is going on in basically every society (yes, even islamic, in fact especially them) on earth, the West is just furthest along the route because industrialisation started here.

The generations before them didn't have sex or drugs at all.

>b-but society always was degenerate!

Something like 75% of Americans were virgins at marriage in Kinseys studies. Drug use was never openly celebrated like it is today.

>less sex
Not that guy, but that probably isn't because of a rise of "traditional" values, but more to do new generations of people being less socially adapted.

Yes, we already know the west is a nihilistic, consumerist dystopia.

Yeah, I'll never forget the Iranian Gay Pride parade of 2012. Or when Saudi was the first Muslim country to elect an atheist leader.

Wait...

>Drug use was never openly celebrated like it is today.

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>marketing it as a health supplement versus "turn up nigga" "tune in drop out maaaaan"

Liberalism is a mental disorder

>amphetamines being openly advertised in magazines isn't as bad as hippies writing songs with pot references

Your mom is a mental disorder.

They didn't know any better back then; they thought it had legit medicinal uses as opposed to openly admitting to abusing something just to get high since you're a worthless degenerate.

Nigga, you ever read Sherlock Holmes? He shot up with cocaine when there wasn't a case coming in.

The peak of drug addiction in the US was around the turn of the last century when pharmacies sold medical grade cocaine and heroin to anyone, and there were still a bunch of civil war veterans with crippling opium addictions dating back to battlefield surgeries.

Britain actually had to implement a legal heroin program in the thirties because so many of their doctors had become addicted, and doctors are too valuable to jail.

You aren't interested in learning, you're interested in trying to make other people obey you.

But you learned something today. My sticky learning juices are in your knowledge hole, and there's nothing you can do about it.

but that's rape user.

this guy gets it.

Fun little anecdote, nazi germany was constantly high as fuck on Pervitin which was german made medicinal methamphetamine in pill form. think about that. they had to outlaw it in the later years because people popped these things for sunday brunch.

Oh yes, and now they upgrade from being to deeming harmless stuff like weed and LSD as illegal for political reasons and selling opioids like free candy despite knowing they are a less fucked up version of heroin