Re:The Most Dangerous Censorship
by baggy_trough on Wednesday June 23, 2021 @12:50AM
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Who is this "we" doing the judging of true and false? People of good conscience have debated weighty issues like political philosophy for thousands of years. Thinking that one half of the country is good and true and the other is hateful and evil is simplistic and wrong (I would go so far as to say that it is a form of evil.)
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Re:The Most Dangerous Censorship
by michaelmrose on Wednesday June 23, 2021 @03:16PM
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Republicans aren't half of the country any longer a mere 29% identify as Republicans and another 15% identify as independents who lean right.
https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2020/06/02/in-changing-...
50-60% of that shrinking minority espouse beliefs that are crazy, dangerous, or both. Members of that shrinking minority are losing control of this nation and they are taking it badly. With shifting demographics voter suppression and disinformation isn't going to be sufficient to retain control and they are going to choose between violence and irrelevance and I don't think they will willingly choose irrelevance.
Re:The Most Dangerous Censorship
by baggy_trough on Thursday June 24, 2021 @12:59AM
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Using your numbers, it adds up to 44%. Dismissing my point because 44% is less than 50% is unwarranted.
Re:The Most Dangerous Censorship
by michaelmrose on Thursday June 24, 2021 @07:47AM
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Rounding. More relevant only 29% are willing to call themselves republicans.
Re:The Most Dangerous Censorship
by daddylongstroke on Thursday June 24, 2021 @02:25PM
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To your point, I also am no longer willing to call myself progressive, or even "left-wing"....I don't want to be confused with the youthful, thoughtless, destructive, mob...and I'm a European anarcho-communist, so hopefully that means something. :-P I think in this regard, many, many, many people on both the "right" and "left" are in agreement.