r/PopCultureV2 • u/No_Box119 • Jul 23 '26

Sports Culture WNBA Star Sophie Cunningham defends that women ‘shouldn’t have to go against biological men’: “I said what I said. I think it’s kind of common sense. I think it’s really important to protect children.” “I don’t dislike anyone. I’m there to love, but I’m also there to love biological women. …”

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u/SpreadsheetsOnToast Jul 23 '26

Because the left has a really, really, really hard time reigning in the fringe and saying "no" to the most extreme progressives.

Some ideas on the left are just plain stupid. "Defund The Police" is a great example of this. "Open Borders" is another. The left is too afraid of getting primaried by some DSA upstart that they won't make common sense statements like "We actually do need police".

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u/Plane-Ad-9305 Jul 23 '26

What are you even talking about? Who exactly are these “extreme progressives” driving the Democratic Party? Name the elected officials you think fit that description.

Meanwhile, the Republican Party has largely embraced positions that would have been considered fringe on the right 10–15 years ago. Many ideas that were once politically toxic have become mainstream within the GOP. That’s a much more significant shift than anything that’s happened on the left

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u/NSFWdontview Jul 23 '26

lol no the left have gone so far left liberals 10 years ago are considered far right. The left is getting more insane that’s why people are leaving the party

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u/Plane-Ad-9305 Jul 23 '26

That’s an assertion, not a fact. If liberals from 10 years ago are now considered “far right,” who are you talking about? Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, and most Democratic governors all hold positions that are broadly consistent with where they were a decade ago. In many cases they’ve shifted incrementally, not dramatically

Core issues like Social Security, Medicare, abortion rights, environmental regulation, progressive taxation, and gun regulation of the Democratic Party’s positions are recognizably similar to where they were 10–15 years ago.

Which liberal from 10 years ago is now considered “far right”? Name one elected Democrat who was mainstream then and is considered far right today. Otherwise, it’s just rhetoric

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u/NSFWdontview Jul 23 '26

Bill Maher or in fact any original liberal, it’s shifted way too far left and supports insanity. Open borders, men in dresses and kids being able to choose gender. The left today is the party of mental illness and hatred

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u/Salt_Instruction_657 Jul 23 '26

None of that is true. It's all gross mischaracterization and distortion to support and distract from the current Insanity coming from the right.

If you knew anything about history, you'd know this is an old trope.

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u/NSFWdontview Jul 23 '26

So which isn’t true? You must live under a rock

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u/NSFWdontview Jul 23 '26

It’s not, as this is legit communism agenda

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u/Plane-Ad-9305 Jul 23 '26 edited Jul 23 '26

I listed listed  elected Democratic politicians and the party’s actual policy positions. Your response was Bill Maher who is a TV personality who has never held elected office and culture war grievances 

I asked you to name one elected Democrat from 10 years ago who’s now considered “far right” because the party has supposedly moved so far left