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I do generally happen to think that diversity, gender equality, freedom of speech, and public health are causes that are important. I don't feel like being told to shut up about it because someone else is a fascist is very productive.
this is really entirely subjective and I'd be surprised if something like this isn't moderated for being flamebait
The Trump administration drastically cut the budget of basically every govt agency that does or supports scientific research and decimated staffing. Is that not an objective fact? Is there some alternative one?
Semantic nihilism. It’s a basic fact of political science that governments enact policies in order to achieve outcomes. Or if you prefer cybernetics, there’s always Stafford Beer: “The purpose of a system is what is does.”
What would conservatives done if Obama said the same? Trump is “ingroup” and the law only protects him, it does not bind him.
Obama? Definitely outgroup, and definitely bound by the law.
Liberalism, in the classic sense, is the opposite: the law protects and binds all, equally.
I doubt you are as “in group” as you might think you are.
That’s what’s supposed to happen. The pendulums swing. It’s fairly definite at this point that the buyer’s remorse from trump will cause a swing back to the left. And so on and so forth.
If we’re going to insist on living in a two party system, then this is the consequence. This is how the system moderates.
The right and the left never moderate. It’s always the system that keeps order over time.
We do not have a left. I honestly am impressed at the system that has somehow made the democrats seem like "the left".
They're quite literally right wing politicians. Their primary difference with Republicans are that "we have a good thing going for our pockets right now, let's not shock the boat too much."
There are _exceptions_ to democrats that may be considered _slightly left_, but those are exceptions. Not the norm.