Kind of surprised about nostr:npub1a2cww4kn9wqte4ry70vyfwqyqvpswksna27rtxd8vty6c74era8sdcw83a 's naive take on BTC's supposed appeal to the Western left. Speaking as a European, I simply do not see any of the examples Lyn gives.
For the left in the Western European country where I live, the opposition to Putin are the bad guys (so is Ukraine, obviously), women in Afghanistan are a deplorable collateral damage to the good fight against the evil US, and basically anything that like BTC decentralizes economic power out of the iron grip of an ever-expanding State, is pure evil that must be fought to eradication, period.
You guys have no idea of the adamant, relentless, anti-Bitcoin discourse and propaganda of the European left and how ingrained it has become.
The "Left" was a seating plan for 1700s French parliamentarians. It meant a little then, ideologically, and less now.
I strongly suspect, outside the MSM gaslighting, the "Left" and "Right" are each very divided and diverse.
Build bridges to those you can reach.
It's just a simplified term to refer to the blend of marxism and progressivism that has become the hegemonic ideology in the West.
As such, it's just the latest iteration of Enlightened Despotism that sprung put of France in the 17th century.
I think it's worth setting that moment as a starting point apart from the premodern forms of tyranny because of the simultaneous emergence (they require each other) of the Westphalian nation-state, which is the hegemonic form of political organization, now more than ever.
The bottom line of this long-standing series of ideologies is a common belief in a centrally planned economic and societal model. That's what it all boils down to, regardless of the label.
Its hegemonic among 8% of the population, bro.
Its media gaslighting dominated by that same 8% that makes them seem more than they are.
These guys do decent research - https://web.archive.org/web/20221103144105/https://www.moreincommon.com/our-work/publications/ - quite a few papers there.
The political views of real people are much more interesting than the toxic gaslighting of the MSM
