4 ms·
Seems more likely than people think. Both sides now work hard to silence opposing or even moderate viewpoints. Even our dictionary definitions are moving more
by aeternum 5y ago
Seems more likely than people think. Both sides now work hard to silence opposing or even moderate viewpoints.
Even our dictionary definitions are moving more extreme, someone pointed out a few weeks ago that the definition of anti-vaxer for example now includes anyone that opposes any vaccine mandate.
There's very little engagement on ideas or push to get closer to truth.
- multjoy 5y ago>Both sides Lol.
- sanedigital 5y agoYour comment does the very thing you ridicule. Be better.
- multjoy 5y agoNope. The 'both sides' argument is the paradox of tolerance. Both sides didn't launch an armed insurrection, it was just the one.
- aeternum 5y agoThere are some equally extreme leftist groups. It's pretty unfair to base your opinion of nearly half the country on the actions of a very small extreme minority.
- multjoy 5y agoI think it's absolutely fair, especially when the organisation of it goes to the literal heart of government.
- heyjamesknight 5y agoAs a former Democrat turned party-agnostic by the last few years, I disagree. I would call CHAZ/CHOP an armed insurrection. And it was the left that bombed the U.S. Senate in 1983. Most liberals are good people. Some aren't. The same thing goes for conservatives.
- syki 5y agoIf the center of the political spectrum shifts too far left or right then things get distorted. Moderate viewpoints when this happens will similarly have shifted to the right or left. From my perspective the U.S. has very much shifted to the right the past 50 years. Consider that Nixon created the EPA and Regan believed that the tax on labor should be less than the tax on capital. When the starting point on discussions has shifted too far in one direction then it’s hard to have sane discussions with the majority of the electorate. That we have sitting members of Congress openly call for secession and the suppression of voting rights without their party condemning them indicates to me that we have tilted too far to the right for common ground to be found.
- hangpelosi 5y ago
- syki 5y agoIt’s easy to find articles on voter suppression efforts. This is particularly true in the South. There are lots of articles detailing these efforts. Here is one: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/nearly-21-000-polling-locations-eliminated-for-2020-election-day-report https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/nearly-21-000-pollin... Ironically your response to my post aptly demonstrates the veracity of the essence of the point I made. Namely, it’s hard to have a civil discussion when the center of the politics of a nation have shifted too far right or too far left.
- hangpelosi 5y ago
- anamax 5y ago> the suppression of voting rights Which countries allow voting by mail and/or without ID?
- syki 5y ago
- jeffbee 5y agoOne side has a monopoly on calling for civil war. One side has sitting congressional representatives openly advocating a "national divorce" i.e. a civil war.
- aeternum 5y agoIt's not fair to say it's one-sided. CA banned state-employee travel to 1/3 of America for states that differ in their views. This just isn't a path toward finding common ground. https://www.npr.org/2021/06/29/1011253354/california-bans-state-travel-to-florida-and-4-other-states-lgbtq https://www.npr.org/2021/06/29/1011253354/california-bans-st... Some republicans definitely seem to have ramped things up but actions like this on the democratic side are nearly as concerning.
- anamax 5y ago> Both sides now work hard to silence opposing or even moderate viewpoints. Who has the Right deplatformed?
- ineedasername 5y agoMembers of the Republican party are doing it to other members who do not support former President Trump.