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You're making a clear appeal to "the truth is in the middle, both sides are good/bad, only centrists have it right", which is nonsense. Reality and objective t

You're making a clear appeal to "the truth is in the middle, both sides are good/bad, only centrists have it right", which is nonsense. Reality and objective truth leans more to the left, in comparison to the current political climate, which is unfortunately skewing to the right in a lot of countries.

mantas 8y ago
Nah, I don't like ideology-less centrists either. IMO to function as a society we need to cherry-pick good ideas from left and right. Elections from both left and right (not from centrists) is a good way to find the balance good for the given moment. And it's definitely different at different points of socioeconomic cycle. E.g. economic downtown might need more right wing policies to get businesses back on track, while surplus times may be used to help the poor and cool the economy at the same time. > Reality and objective truth leans more to the left Now that's truly objective and unbiased! I don't see how "objective truth" is closer to the left than to the right. Both of these are subjective choices of the people. One of them is not inherently better or worse. Taken to extremes, both are full of shit. I've to agree that today people are leaning to the left. Democracy is less and less important according to polls and people seem to prefer nanny state. Which is sad. > which is unfortunately skewing to the right in a lot of countries It's skewing to weird mix of worst of both left and right. E.g. socialdemocrats in many countries gave up their fight for the working class. To the point that they themselves push neoliberal pro-big-business laws. Yet right seems to be adopting more and more "socially aware" policies. Which skews the whole balance of liberty-vs-nanny-state to the later a lot. Yet nobody is taking care of labour-vs-business balance.

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You're making a clear appeal to "the truth is in the middle, both sides are good/bad, only centrists have it right", which is nonsense. Reality and objective t

by KozmoNau7 8y ago

mantas 8y ago
Nah, I don't like ideology-less centrists either. IMO to function as a society we need to cherry-pick good ideas from left and right. Elections from both left and right (not from centrists) is a good way to find the balance good for the given moment. And it's definitely different at different points of socioeconomic cycle. E.g. economic downtown might need more right wing policies to get businesses back on track, while surplus times may be used to help the poor and cool the economy at the same time. > Reality and objective truth leans more to the left Now that's truly objective and unbiased! I don't see how "objective truth" is closer to the left than to the right. Both of these are subjective choices of the people. One of them is not inherently better or worse. Taken to extremes, both are full of shit. I've to agree that today people are leaning to the left. Democracy is less and less important according to polls and people seem to prefer nanny state. Which is sad. > which is unfortunately skewing to the right in a lot of countries It's skewing to weird mix of worst of both left and right. E.g. socialdemocrats in many countries gave up their fight for the working class. To the point that they themselves push neoliberal pro-big-business laws. Yet right seems to be adopting more and more "socially aware" policies. Which skews the whole balance of liberty-vs-nanny-state to the later a lot. Yet nobody is taking care of labour-vs-business balance.