Tim Pool: This is why they call everyone "far right"

That’s great. I hope it’s based on real data. Really good data.

That is certainly how it feels.

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That is certainly how it feels.

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Yes indeed,

intuitively, without data, it certainly does

And FYI, Tim is a classic liberal.

Yep, Tim is a classical liberal for anybody who doesn't know him. He calls out all the bullshite insanity of the modern left

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Go to: LINK Under "Political Polarization, 1994-2014", select "Politically Active", "By Party", and "Animate data from 1994-2014" and watch the fun begin. Keep your eye on it when it reaches 2005.



I acknowledge a conservative bias. That said, it appears that the right at least sampled liberalism for a few years ("OK - we'll try it"), didn't like the smell of it, then skedaddled back to the right. Do you see the same thing??

These graphs are the best 10-second history lesson money can buy. Be sure to show it to your kids. This is a great find. Thanks to the OP.

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That’s great. I hope it’s based on real data. Really good data.

That is certainly how it feels

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It's funny because on basically every issue I can think of my views are largely the same as they were 25 years ago with only a couple of exceptions. And both of those exceptions I've actually moved left.

But 25 years ago I felt like I had a lot in common with what I would have referred to as the right-wing or moderate group of Democrats.in fact in certain areas such as free speech I felt more at home with Democrats than a lot of Republicans

Basically if I've changed it all it's been a crack left and yet I feel absolutely zero in common with the average Democrat know or see now

I have posted these in the past. Sorry, but I did not find an animated GIF that includes 2017.





The second one is interesting, because it shows a pause at the point where one party or the other seems to make a dramatic shift.

Another thing that I find interesting about this data is the way that BOTH parties have shifted from a fairly-symmetrical Bell Curve to a curve that is highly-skewed to either the Left or the Right, with a pronounced “tail.” In other words, it seems to show that the “extremist” element in each party has grown in size.

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classical liberal

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Classical liberal = Libeterian

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I just can't vote alongside the likes of DS, VOR, TigerDC, Celtdog, kickadog, rex, etc.

These people are clinically insane

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I think where the difference is is that for most of my life other than abortion I've been what someone would probably call socially liberal. But my reasons for being socially liberal were largely the same reasons I'm conservative overall. I have a very healthy distrust of government trying to run shite. I'm a huge fan of freedom and that runs from freedom to run my business how I want all the way to freedom to how to run my personal life

What I don't think I realized a long time ago is that the left reason for being socially liberal was different. The use social liberalism as a weapon to achieve their economic goals. This is why their grievance hierarchy keeps fricking expanding.