by Outcast_Searcher » Sat 29 Feb 2020, 15:47:14
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('asg70', 'B')oth sides have only accentuated the worst aspects of their ideology. The left has become an inverse version of the 80s religious right as far as trying to curtail freedom of speech and socially engineer whereas the right presents a more existential danger by virtue of its anti-science, denialist, brown-tech policies. Both of them lack fiscal restraint. They just blow their money on different things. The country is in dire need of a pragmatic centrist. Obama was as close as we've come to having one. Left of center to be sure but nowhere near as left as, let's say, Bernie Sanders. Centrists are hated by both extremes but without one the country will just see-saw from one extreme to the other with half the country threatening secession or civil war.
You were doing fine overall, except for a couple points.
1). The right doesn't own being anti-science, bad as they are on it in certain areas like climate change, evolution, etc. The left tends to carry plenty of the anti-science water for things like anti-GMO and anti-vaxxers ("educated" liberal types who think "the internet" re what they want to hear is better information than medicine). So like spending -- it's just which toys (ideas) certain classes of folks get emotional about.
2). Oops, I see I misread your take on Bernie Sanders. When I thought you were calling him centrist (you weren't of course), I thought you'd lost a gear.
Yeah, it's kind of sad that the extremes both tend to hate centrists, when centrists (IMO), tend overall, to be the only rational choice. What a mess modern society is getting to be re complexity and opposing interests.
Given the track record of the perma-doomer blogs, I wouldn't bet a fast crash doomer's money on their predictions.
