I'm over 50, so having lived through a decent chunk of history, I can say beyond a shadow of a doubt that one of the big reasons the left was so successful at marching through the institutions was the delusion that the right had that leftists were simply "misguided" folks who would see the light if only we took the high road and made reasonable arguments to sway them.
And don't even get me started on Bush Jr's compassionate conservatism.
I understand the impulse to take the high road, but unfortunately, practicing cultural pacifism and thinking that well-reasoned, high-minded tweets are going to sway the Overton window towards anything resembling sanity is a pipe dream.
I'm over 50, so having lived through a decent chunk of history, I can say beyond a shadow of a doubt that one of the big reasons the left was so successful at marching through the institutions was the delusion that the right had that leftists were simply "misguided" folks who would see the light if only we took the high road and made reasonable arguments to sway them.
And don't even get me started on Bush Jr's compassionate conservatism.
I understand the impulse to take the high road, but unfortunately, practicing cultural pacifism and thinking that well-reasoned, high-minded tweets are going to sway the Overton window towards anything resembling sanity is a pipe dream.