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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
And his pragmatism left many in the American left deeply disenchanted.
I get that simplistic dogmatism has always been attractive to both left and right. But as someone who takes a more utilitarian and liberal approach to public policy, I used to find I was more compatible with the left than the right. That is no longer true. The left changed and left me with no political home.
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This is obviously how you feel so by definition you can't be wrong.
However, if people like you abandon the left, that just makes the left that much more prone to obnoxious crusades.
Personally I would hope that you and people like you just ignore the loud minority of the moral crusader types on the left. They really don't have that much actual political power. The real power is still with the moderate centrist types.
Utilitarian liberalism is still the best protection from all types of moral crusaders.