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re: Are The Political Left & The Political Right Farther Apart Than Ever?Can Anything Be Done?
Posted on 8/28/25 at 7:32 pm to SlowFlowPro
Posted on 8/28/25 at 7:32 pm to SlowFlowPro
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Step 1: stop trying to make everything partisan or political
Step 2: stop being addicted to dopamine hits of emotionality
Step 3: analyze news/sourcing with objective logic and rationality, instead of echo chamber logic and emotion. These 3 simple steps would help with most people.
Annnnd we had Jake Tapper scold everyone about misgendering a kid killer today.
Who really are the hyper partisans? The people more likely to attack someone else over different views? The people at a complete 0 in gallop rankings on the current approval of the administration?
Who are the emotional ones? Who are the constant protestors? The yellers? Screamers? The ones claiming democracy in this country is in danger of going away? That has congresswomen gathering a group and telling them to confront members of a different party?
And analyzing news sources… do I even have to with this one?
So I think you are singing to the wrong choir here.
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Posted on 8/28/25 at 7:41 pm to CleverUserName
You’d think they’d mature from their “progressive” ideologies, but with all the aging dim protesters we keep seeing, I guess not.
Posted on 9/1/25 at 3:20 pm to lake chuck fan
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No. There exist no path to the left and right coming together. They are polar opposite of one another on the most basic and foundational issues.
Whats insane is that it wasnt like this until recently. Some kind of act from Obama changed things in about 2012. Suddenly, racism was everywhere.
Posted on 9/1/25 at 3:36 pm to BoardReader
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Every generation thinks it is reinventing the wheel, that things have never been more divided, that everything is coming to a boiling point.
+1,000
...It's human nature for many to think that they are living through some really consequential time in human history, and therefore their life is really consequential.
In reality we are all just one grain of sand on one big arse beach in the big scheme of things.
Posted on 9/1/25 at 3:38 pm to KCT
At the extremes yes. It's the extreme 10 percent on either side and the other 80 percent of the population isn't completely insane
Posted on 9/1/25 at 3:44 pm to CleverUserName
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So I think you are singing to the wrong choir here.
But he doesnt understand why or how as he is scolding non-liberals rather than the insane liberals.
Posted on 9/1/25 at 3:50 pm to BoardReader
I’m not aware of an American Civil War going on right now. One where almost 700,000 men die. So I’d say no, we aren’t the farthest apart we’ve ever been.
Matter of fact, we’re not even 2nd. That would go to the hippies in the 60s
Matter of fact, we’re not even 2nd. That would go to the hippies in the 60s
Posted on 9/1/25 at 4:05 pm to KCT
They’re far apart because the left is running in a sprint leftward. The “neocon” right can’t catch up and act as the right flank of the political left because they’re so crazy they would alienate their Fox News constituency. The neocon right also can’t maneuver to the right because that would mean tearing down their own institutions.
As clarification I say neocon right as a descriptor. There aren’t really anymore neocons. The neocon philosophy was fully absorbed by the Republican Party and Conservative Inc. So really neocon just means republican.
As clarification I say neocon right as a descriptor. There aren’t really anymore neocons. The neocon philosophy was fully absorbed by the Republican Party and Conservative Inc. So really neocon just means republican.
This post was edited on 9/1/25 at 4:06 pm
Posted on 9/1/25 at 4:13 pm to KCT
One side or the other must be defeated, eradicated.
There is zero path to reconcile our differences.
Folks dont like to hear this and always believe there are non violent ways to reconcile differences, and usually there are....
This is basic good vs evil, right vs wrong. There is no reconciliation.
There is zero path to reconcile our differences.
Folks dont like to hear this and always believe there are non violent ways to reconcile differences, and usually there are....
This is basic good vs evil, right vs wrong. There is no reconciliation.
Posted on 9/1/25 at 4:15 pm to Violent Hip Swivel
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...It's human nature for many to think that they are living through some really consequential time in human history, and therefore their life is really consequential.
In reality we are all just one grain of sand on one big arse beach in the big scheme of things.
Just because you don't recognize the significance of our time doesn't disqualify it.....
Think about it.....
Posted on 9/1/25 at 4:21 pm to KCT
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Are The Political Left & The Political Right Farther Apart Than Ever?Can Anything Be Done?
Since the modern Political Left is driven by Marxists?….
Yes, Destroy them.
This is no longer the old traditional American liberals with whom you could find at least a few issues of common cause for the good of the country.
These modern day frickers detest everything this Republic was found upon and stood for.
Posted on 9/1/25 at 4:32 pm to lake chuck fan
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Just because you don't recognize the significance of our time doesn't disqualify it.....
Think about it.....
Self-absorbed people were saying this same shite back during the caveman era, except in caveman language.
Posted on 9/1/25 at 4:37 pm to Powerman
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At the extremes yes. It's the extreme 10 percent on either side and the other 80 percent of the population isn't completely insane
81 million fricking people (allegedly) voted for Joe Biden, and you think it’s only 10% extreme on the left?
A literal MARXIST just ran undemocratically supplanting the incumbent and nearly half of the country voted for her, and you think it’s only 10% extreme on the left?
Posted on 9/1/25 at 4:41 pm to KCT
Their fringes are starting to overlap, so…
Posted on 9/1/25 at 4:51 pm to weagle1999
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People on the 2 sides are more similar to each other than you might think.
^^^^^^This.
Posted on 9/1/25 at 5:02 pm to KCT
I think the "American left" has largely been reduced to the extremely loud and insane fringe activists of the dying democrat party. I think the vast majority of normal Americans are closer than we've been since 9/11. The stop Trump brigade is so obviously contrived and powerless, they are about to be totally ignored.
Posted on 9/1/25 at 5:03 pm to KCT
Yes.
No.
It'd be best to split up.
Politics usually should not divide a nation, but it is now, and there should be a major split.
No.
It'd be best to split up.
Politics usually should not divide a nation, but it is now, and there should be a major split.
Posted on 9/1/25 at 7:26 pm to KCT
I grew up in the 60s. Today is nothing like the divisions then. Desegregation, The War, assassinations, etc.
Posted on 9/1/25 at 7:31 pm to KCT
1% of the left thinks the country is headed in the right direction
75% of the right thinks the country is headed in the right direction
Nothing can be done
75% of the right thinks the country is headed in the right direction
Nothing can be done
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