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The chart I found most interesting was "U.S. Political Ideology Identification, 1992-2025". Conservative has remained more or less static the whole time, 36% i
by lapcat 9mo ago
The chart I found most interesting was "U.S. Political Ideology Identification, 1992-2025".
Conservative has remained more or less static the whole time, 36% in 1992, 35% in 2025, which I guess makes a kind of sense, while moderate has dropped 10%, with a corresponding increase in liberal.
I would personally call this social progress, though of course conservatives would disagree. On the other hand, the specific political policies supported by self-described conservatives and liberals has sometimes changed radically over those years, which can make my eyes roll and my head spin—for example, I remember a time when conservatives were free-trade internationalists—so I think it's a separate question whether US political policy itself has become too conservative or too liberal. In any case, the leaders of both parties tend to advance the interests of themselves and their donors over the interests of their voters or the public at large.
I've come to see political parties, political ideologies, and even religions more as social groups than as repositories for specific beliefs, where the identity and attitude of the members is more important than consistency, logic, or truth.
- rayiner 9mo ago[flagged]
- lapcat 9mo ago"An estimated 300,000 people in the United States identified as Bangladeshi in 2023, according to estimates published by the U.S. Census Bureau." https://www.pewresearch.org/race-and-ethnicity/fact-sheet/asian-americans-bangladeshis-in-the-u-s/ https://www.pewresearch.org/race-and-ethnicity/fact-sheet/as... Not that your other claims about Bangladesh or Bangladeshis have an empirical basis either. But it was probably a mistake even to reply, because I'm well aware of you and have no interest in arguing with you again. It's pointless and frustrating.
- asdff 9mo ago“ I've come to see political parties, political ideologies, and even religions more as social groups than as repositories for specific beliefs, where the identity and attitude of the members is more important than consistency, logic, or truth.” Even more concerning is when you realize no one even formally controls these beasts. Doing “what is best” for the party/church/company is sufficient to both drive the outcomes we observe, make it impossible to ever effect change from status quo since this is what any replacement piece would do, and offer a fig leaf of moral justification or even cognitive dissonance that this is what ought to be done whether you like it or not. Thousand generations upholding these zombie meta human organizations that march towards what, no one knows.