Something that strikes me everytime is that ideologically, I find myself relatively in line with a lot of leftists (Go ahead and crucify me, don't care) on a lot of things, my main exceptions being their culture war policies, and neither side ends up representing my opinions on those. The trouble is that despite me agreeing with a lot of what they say, so many of them are just reprehensible people, and even the ones that aren't take up this smug attitude, rabid dismissal of anything they don't like, unwillingness to understand why the other side believes what it does, while simultaneously envisioning themselves as gentle understanding humanists. They hate capitalism, but they'll whore themselves out for money, that and many of them already come from money.
I am from a flyover state, you could probably get a pretty accurate guess which just by throwing a dart near the center of the US on a map, and while I personally have my own critiques about American society, I have been told that my home shouldn't be supported by anyone, and if we don't want to play ball with them on their terms, then we deserve whatever happens to us. They want this whole mess we find ourselves in to end, but they don't want to address the reasons why Middle Americans have gone so hard to support the right wing.
Also don't even get me started on the political compass bullshit, are we really still defining all politics through the lens of the French Revolution? It's just a useful way to describe the situation we find ourselves in, given that's how they've chosen to define themselves, left and right.
