08-09-2020, 09:26 PM
(08-09-2020, 08:22 PM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: Looks like I'm not the only one who thinks the far left has become the norm.
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/08/09/san-francisco-democrats-took-over-392613
Eh, yes and no. I only skimmed the article, and I don't have a ton of time to really dig into why I say that, but the tl;dr is that what the author describes includes societal shifts that have made some of those ideas that once defined the far left to be mainstream, e.g. same sex marriage. While the politicians mentioned certainly stray a little further left than some others, they don't come near the far-left fringe that are often maligned. The politicians discussed there are still decidedly liberal, not leftist.
"A great democracy has got to be progressive, or it will soon cease to be either great or a democracy..." - TR
"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
"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
