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Meta-point: Does the pendulum really ever settle in the middle with anything society?

• 4gotunameagain 4y ago
  no, but the amplitude of the oscillations decays (maybe exponentially, to keep our analogy fitting?)
• Quarrelsome 4y ago
  populism will always seek to implement inexpensive grandstanding like this, because its cheap and requires zero-competence and in return for spending zero effort and money you get to virtue signal to electors that are nationalists. I wouldn't class this as anywhere on the pendulum as its not an economic policy and social issues are a bit of a fudge into the classical left/right spectrum.
  • satellite2 4y ago
    German was largely influenced and modified by nazism. Proper German words and syntax were pushed. This is part of a trend that's far from virtue signaling. Year after year the initiatives of the far right get more extreme but don't feel like so because they're only a small increments above the previous one.
    • Quarrelsome 4y ago
      > This is part of a trend that's far from virtue signaling. I would argue that signalling fascist virtues is still a form of virtue signalling. It just depends on what you consider to be a virtue. But yea, any attempts at cultural renaissance are vulnerable to nationalist and even fascist tendencies.