what happened to leftist?

I'm sorry that you hate people who support the defense of Ukraine. What they have in common with Vietnam war protesters is the idea that invaders should be resisted and countries left to make their own choices.

Who yells at you for not liking microplastics in your water? It's been liberals who have been fighting encroaching plastics for many decades. Which conservatives are on the anti-plastic bandwagon??

Mostly it's question the status quo, which is currently labeled "conservative" but is actually tRumpist.

● Can you explain why we need a $4 trillion tax cut when spending cuts amount to maybe $160 billion?
● Can you explain why we shouldn't continue to give our children the MMR & TDaP vaccines?
● Can you explain why 3 million acres of national forests need to be sold?
● Can you explain why tRump's national police force needs to keep their names and faces secret?
● Can you explain why our Consumer Financial Protection Bureau needed to be eliminated?

If you resent being questioned, if you can't mount a logical defense of current "conservative" policies, if your only response is whataboutism and attacks, then you need to think real hard about why you support things you can't explain or defend.

BTW, one strong thread of leftism that's been around from the first Earth Day until now is conservation, including clean air and clean water. And you & I both know who's working hard to roll back those environmental regulations and log and stripmine our national forests.

I am not sure who you are talking about. Also, I don't recall being against fluoride in the water ever being a leftist position. On the other hand, all the leftists I know, old or young, are upset about the microplastics. So your own politics sound like an interesting mix to me. In any case things may be different here in Canada from where you are.

Well, I suppose I used to BE very close to your definition of a leftist. I was an art major, and I was into organic gardening and recycling and saving the trees and the oceans. I still am. But I also have a brain.

I REFUSE to be used. And lefty politicians USE their supporters and lead them down the wrong paths. And those wrong paths include ways of thought.

That's why I am no longer a Democrat. I am an Independent voter, and I voted for Trump THREE times.

I have absolutely no idea what leftists you're referring to. Most leftists are still anti-war, still pro-health, still against the war on drugs.

I'm a leftist and completely oppose the war.

They got old.

The boomers love love LOVE their TVs. They grew up on them, it's been a pacifier their whole lives.

So now the TV Cable news is all shrill hysteria and doom predictions and the boomers are falling for it like they did for the Mickey Mouse Club or the Howdy Doody Show.

The history of "leftists" is also filled with movements like The Weather Underground, etc., who advocated violence as a means of social change.

When I was a kid, I thought being a leftist meant a person who was left-handed and that a left-winger was just a position in ice hockey.

We are excluded by ordinary people and especially both mainstream political parties and the corporate media from your politics because you are All United behind pro war anti socialism regimes. You win-shorter lives and an ongoing wildfire, etc - no exit and good riddance!

Leftists hate everything that Republicans like...pure and simple.
Good old common sense rules and behavior they challenge.
They will lie and say anything to get a vote.
Most ALL destructive protests are by leftists....
BLM started when Obama was all for them....then that organization turned corrupt and those protests are scarce now.

Yes but they dont vote Democrat

Not sure what you are on about. Are you confusing democrats with leftists?