It’s sort of the essence of human spirit, which is kind of inevitable in any evolutionary system that the optimistic species would survive.
For what it’s worth though, at least in medieval times, my money is on the dragon.
My money is on the person, I don’t think a dragon has ever successfully killed a person…
I’m not sure. The quote itself says the statement isn’t true.
I don’t think real life “dragons” (bullies, abusers, rapists, invaders, etc.) can be reliably beaten.
Fairytales are about wishful thinking. The youngest, poorest, stupidest brother wins the hottest princess in the world.
That’s where I saw my polarization of congress link.
I generally like musk, but he is wrong on this one.
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Yeah, I always considered my politics center-right. But the way things have been changing they now seem to be center-left.
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I’ve definitely moved left in the last decade, both socially and fiscally. It feels like the right has traveled much more though.
It’s not that the “far right” is further right now than it was. It just has a lot more people there than it used to.
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There is no left wing party in the United States. There is a center right party and a far right party.
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I think there’s some new levels of left-wing. More aggressively wokesters, a push for openish borders, big student loan forgiveness, and a lot of billionaire hate. I don’t recall any of those things s decade ago. Admittedly I might have had my own head in the sand.
Agree that right-wing craziness has grown out of hand.
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I think the AO had a mix of daft hannity watchers, good christians with mixed feelings on social issues, extreme libertarians, socialists, and a bunch of moderates…
And now we’re… A bunch of people that agree with the Economist.
There are probably less than 2 dozen left wing members of the house and senate combined, and that’s if you squint really hard.
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Ah, I was still thinking of the previous posts and missed that your use of Party.
Honestly I feel a bit like they both stretched out…
Agreed, although I think part of the left’s expansion in more awareness of the plight of others whereas the right’s viewpoint has shrunk in that regard to what’s immediately around them. I’ve gone from right center to left because I’ve expanded my range of thinking.
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I’m Canadian slightly right of centre, which I think makes me American radical left.
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I guess, in many ways I think the left has rushed towards a combination of dramatic increases to safety net/UBI dreams, an illiberal view of speech, a distinctly non-scientific view of when/how to deal with COVID restrictions, etc.
At the same time the right has stretched towards fascism and they’re off the deep end on a lot of social issues (and guns) so I find myself often voting D federally but R state…
There’s actually a history book called The Good Old Days: They Were Terrible
Has it? Really? What is new on the right that is more right than it used to be. I think the left is moving faster out than the right. I can pinpoint a lot of things that keep moving more and more left. I can’t really tell you any ideas on the right that are new or more right and honestly the Trump version of conservatism has adopted a lot of the post Bush gripes that Democrats had.
I want to debate this notion because I think it is wrong.
I’d be curious about people’s thoughts on a theoretical COVID vaccine compared to their thoughts once it was a reality, specifically those who are anti-COVID vax. In spring 2020, were they “hell no” about the prospect of receiving a COVID vaccine, or did that opinion form after all the misinformation/righteous indignation?
I also see the far right pearl clutching over non issues, like the idea of BLM (not necessarily the organization, just the meaning), elementary kids getting brainwashed over CRT, etc. More Rs campaigning that the Ds are a bunch of baby-eating dingos seems new.