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Pot meet kettle. The right has seen recent success because they have less infighting and are more welcoming of their extremes. The left can't even agree on wh
by willis936 4y ago
Pot meet kettle. The right has seen recent success because they have less infighting and are more welcoming of their extremes. The left can't even agree on what they consider progressive.
- krapp 4y agoThe ratchet effect is real. Republicans move the country further and further right, even when it takes an attempted coup or risks a Constitutional crisis, and Democrats block counter-movement to the left at every opportunity. It's because we don't have a true left in the apparatus of power in the US, even though the actual population tends towards the left. The Democrats aren't leftists, they're center-right at best, basically Conservatives minus the Evangelical Christian veneer, strongly pro-military, pro-capitalism, pro-status quo. The few actual leftists like AOC and Bernie are allowed to piss and moan about things but never to do anything to risk upsetting the apple cart.
- slowmovintarget 4y agoI'm not convinced it is real, because that's the same story the right has been telling about the left since Bill Clinton. Slippery Slope! Overton Window! Ratchet Effect! I've been hearing those rants for more than 30 years, though that repeated complaint has recently come in to fashion on the left among the young. Repetition makes something seem true, but it does not truth make.