Objective Reality Left vs Right

What sets a socialist like me apart from MAGA

When discussing all sorts of societal issues, the topic of bias will come up. I can point to the bias of, say, Fox News, and then conservatives can point to the bias of CNN.

I can point to the bias of MAGA followers and they can shoot back that, as a socialist, I have a left-wing bias. Technically this is all true.

I want to use the opportunity in this article to argue to people who are very devoted to being a centrist why there is nothing principally wrong about having strong political views. What is wrong is rejecting reality and facts.

For instance, MAGA will reject the effectiveness of vaccines or that even COVID-19 killed people. They reject the impact of burning fossil fuels on our climate. They reject basic economic reality. Experts all over the world can tell them Trump’s economic policies are utterly absurd.

One might counter: Are you socialists any better?

Let me clarify one thing first. Regardless of political ideology, you can be someone who respects or rejects objective reality and expert knowledge and understanding. There are, of course, socialists with a poor grip on reality. So my argument is not that being a socialist somehow makes you rational.