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Musk is not conservative. He's just a democrat stuck in the 1990s like pretty much everyone else. This is how I see it, the year you identify as the best decad
by coding123 4y ago
Musk is not conservative. He's just a democrat stuck in the 1990s like pretty much everyone else.
This is how I see it, the year you identify as the best decade (and you were a democrat in that decade), reveals your new politics:
1980 Democrats are FAR RIGHT today (and clearly now republican).
1990 Democrats are Right today (and now republican).
2000 Democrats are moderate today (and maybe republican, independent or democrat)
2010 Democrats are Left today (and likely still democrat)
2020 Democrats are FAR LEFT.
Conservatives are similar, but you just shift them two sections right, so 1990 Republicans are FAR FAR RIGHT now.
In 50 years we'll have very old trans men and women on the FAR RIGHT complaining that back in their day only natural Human beings could get married after changing genders, and that it should be illegal to marry a human that started as a Frog then a pig then a human through genetic manipulation.
edited to make it more clear, the year + politics of that year => spits out your politics today.
- maxlamb 4y agoCan you explain why 1980 Democrats were far right?
- coding123 4y ago1980 democrats were left back in 1980, in 2022 they are far right republicans
- maxlamb 4y agoIf 2022 democrats are far right republicans, what are 2022 republicans?
- coding123 4y ago2022 democrats are far left not far right. for 2020 republicans, just shift 2, they're just moderates
- smithcoin 4y agoNazis \s
- theGnuMe 4y agoYou joke but you are not wrong. One could argue actually they were nazis before that. Repubs and dems switched platforms awhile back though. People need to read up on the dixiecrats. Nixon turned them back into republicans though.
- jsimzeroone 4y agoThey weren't. The alt-right seeks to erase distinctions so all things mean whatever they want at the moment.
- krapp 4y agoExcept the Democrats have never been close to "far left." Outside of the hyperbolic fear-mongering of Republicans calling everyone and everything outside of their party Marxist, The Dems are barely even recognizable as left-wing anywhere in the world. They're only "leftist" in that they're center-right compared to the Republicans far-right.
- martindbp 4y agoThe Dems are not as left economically, but socially I would say they're left of even the Left Party in Sweden (formerly known as the Communists). The pronoun trend, white guilt, critical race theory all started in the US and are still less of a thing here. Since 2015 there's been the neutral pronoun ("hen" vs han (he) and hon (she)), but AFAIK that was more about gender equality at the time, not trans issues.
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- ohCh6zos 4y agoThe Republican party progressive and the Democratic party is incredibly progressive. We do not have anything resembling a regressive party in the USA in any real sense.
- krapp 4y agoIn what way is the Republican party progressive? They're so categorically anti-progressive, they use the term as a pejorative.
- ohCh6zos 4y agoThe Republican party has yielded on basically every issue in living memory. They're the Democratic party with a built-in time delay. They only exist to bring up the rear of what is acceptable in the Overton window, not promote any policy of their own. If you want examples The Republicans fought the New Deal hard and then dropped it. The Republicans fought the Great Society and then dropped it. The Republicans fought gay marriage every step of the way and now recently have members voting for the Respect for Marriage Act. They don't present policy, they just fight progress de jour until it is time to move to the next thing that needs opposition.
- bradchris 4y agoBy that logic, FDR was so far left he broke the scale! In the… 30s. And yet he was considered then (and now) as less socialist / more politically to the right than many leaders in Europe at the time. He was our most progressive president, and certainly further left than any US president since, but even he wasn’t “far left.” And certainly the neoliberal gerontocracy that dominates the current democratic party is nowhere near as left as he was.
- schiffern 4y agoI don't agree with his theory, but I also don't think it's a coincidence his "history" only extends back so far. https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/ https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/
- coding123 4y agoI encourage you to test it out. Ask people: What is your favorite decade? What political party were you associated with IN that decade - be honest? What political party are you now?
- schiffern 4y agoI think you're commenting on real trends (economic and political) in the ongoing post-Reaganomics/post-Thatcherism era However, you greatly overstate your case by saying an individual person's politics can be "revealed" "just" based on that alone, or that the difference between parties is "just" equivalent to two decades. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/706889 https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/706889 https://www.nbcnews.com/news/wbna46057552 https://www.nbcnews.com/news/wbna46057552
- giraffe_lady 4y agoYou can literally just compare platforms to parties in other industrialized democracies to figure this out. The democrats would be firmly center-right with centrist social positions anywhere else.