I think the politics of what is left and what is right have changed.
Am woman, and my politics have changed little since I first voted in 1972. I am anti-war, pro independence, pro human, pro individual civil liberties, pro hard work and the pursuit of happiness. I am staunch believer in the Golden Rule first and foremost, Do No Harm.
I was a lefty, but now I'm a rightey and my principles have changed very little over that time. It's the landscape around me that has altered.
Yeah, I’m somewhat similar (though male, and much younger).
My views on things haven’t necessarily changed. It’s just that the Overton window has shifted so much that, well, apparently maintaining those same beliefs makes me a “right wing bigot”…
Specifically believing that race-based reparations are unfair, that place names should remain in English, that drag queens should not read to children in public libraries, that there are only two genders, and that “personal pronouns” make you look like a fool…
None of this shit was particularly mainstream a decade/15 years ago. I didn’t support it then, and I certainly don’t now.
Yet all of my woke “friends”, naturally, pretend they do, and that they always have, for that matter…
It is rather odd how these "pronoun" things became an overnight success story along with having multiple fake genders.
In the four years between my high school and college graduation, it feels like the people and culture I knew disappeared and just got replaced by skinwalkers.
I think it comes down to a large section of the population not actually being people or even really sentient. They're just animals reacting to stimuli rather than actually possessing any capacity for cognition. They got bombarded by social media stimuli pushing all this weird shit and reacted to it accordingly. They never had any thoughts or positions of their own to begin with, no reasoned stances or conclusions that they had arrived at by thinking about things.
I think it comes down to a large section of the population not actually being people or even really sentient. They're just animals reacting to stimuli rather than actually possessing any capacity for cognition.
At this point I'm not sure that I would call them people, since they don't appear to have souls. This isn't even a religious thing for me. I've interacted with dozens, perhaps hundreds of them, and when I look into their eyes, I don't see an intelligent, curious being. I see a herd animal, who would rather let their offspring be eaten by lions than take the risk of standing their ground, who flees with the other buffalo when the herd moves.
It's been one of the most disturbing realizations I've had over the last decade.
I don't disagree, but I think that what they've changed to is the result of what is happening here. Do No Harm is actually a good example of what I'm talking about.
That harm prioritization is much stronger in women than it is in men (on average), especially when men are prepared to self-harm in order to gain status as a result of thier focus on agency.
The Left focuses on harm reduction, sometimes exclusively to women, as the single most important aspect of all human life. Now, this doesn't mean that they actually do reduce harm; but the story they spin is almost entirely built around X is harm, thus X must be eliminated.
Good, strong, men can't appeal to harm reduction without a loss of status by being out-competed. So while men drift more rightward, women drift more leftward. I think this is why were seeing such extreme gender differences in politics. Particularly one study that said 45% of black men in 2019 said Trump was doing a good job, while only 2% of black women said that he was doing a good job. In black communities, they are dealing with a horrific spate of cultural Leftism, dependencies, and the collapse of marriage and family units. Men can't be independent of the state, get good paying jobs, and have upward socio-economic mobility that increases their status. Meanwhile black women are looking at them as nothing more than a hot commodity to pamper them.
The political right is giving men agency (thus giving them women protection through men), while the political left is giving women protection through the state.
I'm the one who posted this thread, I think women are screwing themselves by denying men the honor they deserve, and then turning to government to bail themselves out of their own muck.
I just wanted to highlight how someone who has remained steadfast to core beliefs was shifted from the left to the right just by changing political definitions. I didn't change much, the goalposts moved.
I think the politics of what is left and what is right have changed.
Am woman, and my politics have changed little since I first voted in 1972. I am anti-war, pro independence, pro human, pro individual civil liberties, pro hard work and the pursuit of happiness. I am staunch believer in the Golden Rule first and foremost, Do No Harm.
I was a lefty, but now I'm a rightey and my principles have changed very little over that time. It's the landscape around me that has altered.
Yeah, I’m somewhat similar (though male, and much younger).
My views on things haven’t necessarily changed. It’s just that the Overton window has shifted so much that, well, apparently maintaining those same beliefs makes me a “right wing bigot”…
Specifically believing that race-based reparations are unfair, that place names should remain in English, that drag queens should not read to children in public libraries, that there are only two genders, and that “personal pronouns” make you look like a fool…
None of this shit was particularly mainstream a decade/15 years ago. I didn’t support it then, and I certainly don’t now.
Yet all of my woke “friends”, naturally, pretend they do, and that they always have, for that matter…
It’s rather sad.
It is rather odd how these "pronoun" things became an overnight success story along with having multiple fake genders.
In the four years between my high school and college graduation, it feels like the people and culture I knew disappeared and just got replaced by skinwalkers.
I think it comes down to a large section of the population not actually being people or even really sentient. They're just animals reacting to stimuli rather than actually possessing any capacity for cognition. They got bombarded by social media stimuli pushing all this weird shit and reacted to it accordingly. They never had any thoughts or positions of their own to begin with, no reasoned stances or conclusions that they had arrived at by thinking about things.
At this point I'm not sure that I would call them people, since they don't appear to have souls. This isn't even a religious thing for me. I've interacted with dozens, perhaps hundreds of them, and when I look into their eyes, I don't see an intelligent, curious being. I see a herd animal, who would rather let their offspring be eaten by lions than take the risk of standing their ground, who flees with the other buffalo when the herd moves.
It's been one of the most disturbing realizations I've had over the last decade.
I don't disagree, but I think that what they've changed to is the result of what is happening here. Do No Harm is actually a good example of what I'm talking about.
That harm prioritization is much stronger in women than it is in men (on average), especially when men are prepared to self-harm in order to gain status as a result of thier focus on agency.
The Left focuses on harm reduction, sometimes exclusively to women, as the single most important aspect of all human life. Now, this doesn't mean that they actually do reduce harm; but the story they spin is almost entirely built around X is harm, thus X must be eliminated.
Good, strong, men can't appeal to harm reduction without a loss of status by being out-competed. So while men drift more rightward, women drift more leftward. I think this is why were seeing such extreme gender differences in politics. Particularly one study that said 45% of black men in 2019 said Trump was doing a good job, while only 2% of black women said that he was doing a good job. In black communities, they are dealing with a horrific spate of cultural Leftism, dependencies, and the collapse of marriage and family units. Men can't be independent of the state, get good paying jobs, and have upward socio-economic mobility that increases their status. Meanwhile black women are looking at them as nothing more than a hot commodity to pamper them.
The political right is giving men agency (thus giving them women protection through men), while the political left is giving women protection through the state.
I'm the one who posted this thread, I think women are screwing themselves by denying men the honor they deserve, and then turning to government to bail themselves out of their own muck.
I just wanted to highlight how someone who has remained steadfast to core beliefs was shifted from the left to the right just by changing political definitions. I didn't change much, the goalposts moved.