03-03-2022, 08:36 AM
(03-02-2022, 01:18 PM)basballguy Wrote: This goes both ways :)
20 years ago the left would've never forced entire nations to shut down over a flulike illness.
The middle is still the middle...we just have more visible extreme rights and lefts.
Yeah they would've, but it's not the left that did it. That's a different topic.
Anyway, the middle is still the middle on a geo-political spectrum, but here in the U.S. what people consider "the middle" is actually right-of-center as far as the ideological spectrum goes. The Overton Window has shifted significantly to the right. What you likely consider to be "extreme left" is barely left of center in the grand scheme of things. The furthest left we see our politicians in this country is in the social democrat realm. That's considered a center-left ideology. Remember Angela Merkel over in Germany? Her and her party are center-right, but for U.S. politics would fall pretty squarely with the mainstream Democratic Party.
So yeah, we do have more visible extremes, but it is almost entirely on the right. So much so that it has shifted our Overton Window in a way that our politics exists almost exclusively on the right-hand side of the geo-political spectrum.
"A great democracy has got to be progressive, or it will soon cease to be either great or a democracy..." - TR
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"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
