I mean, that's been obvious for a long time but let's not pretend the Right isn't growing more extreme in response.
10+ years ago you couldn't even talk about Repealing the 19th, now its a popular talking point in some circles and you can joke about it pretty openly with most people on the Right (if women aren't in the room). I talk about it with the fucking normies at my job because of how casual and popular the idea is becoming.
Same with how that long ago most people on the Right still believed you could have blacks and gays around and be fine, no real upset unless it was really over the top or badly done. Now if a black character exists in a game, people might get pissed about it.
On and on, on almost every issue the Right wing general belief is growing further Right too.
This isn't to say this growing extremity is wrong in the slightest, I'd argue its the way it should have always been on a lot of things and a lot of it is in direct response to the Left doing it first. But we are currently in a point of such polarization that we cannot ever hope for peace because a compromise point would be so far Left/Right of each side's belief it would be madness.
Being able to have votes is a relatively new idea relative to civilizations of man. Allowing children (women) to vote is even more new, just a few decades.
Extreme is always relative to the recent medians in the current nation. Usually just like the last three overlapping generations that make up the majority of the voting base, so Gen X, Millenial and recently Z.
Its extreme to not murder babies in a lot of places historically speaking, but I still think abortion at the level it is would be considered quite extreme to the Left to most people here. Same with not being taxed for all of your income constantly being a pretty extreme position if we call it relative to all of history.
In this case, letting women vote was extreme at the time. But it became normalized enough that people didn't think anything of it beyond simply being the state of things. For people to know want to remove it entirely and discuss it casually is a growing extreme position.
I mean, that's been obvious for a long time but let's not pretend the Right isn't growing more extreme in response.
10+ years ago you couldn't even talk about Repealing the 19th, now its a popular talking point in some circles and you can joke about it pretty openly with most people on the Right (if women aren't in the room). I talk about it with the fucking normies at my job because of how casual and popular the idea is becoming.
Same with how that long ago most people on the Right still believed you could have blacks and gays around and be fine, no real upset unless it was really over the top or badly done. Now if a black character exists in a game, people might get pissed about it.
On and on, on almost every issue the Right wing general belief is growing further Right too.
This isn't to say this growing extremity is wrong in the slightest, I'd argue its the way it should have always been on a lot of things and a lot of it is in direct response to the Left doing it first. But we are currently in a point of such polarization that we cannot ever hope for peace because a compromise point would be so far Left/Right of each side's belief it would be madness.
Is "repealing the 19th" extreme or is Women having voting rights the "extreme" position historically speaking?
Anyone having voting rights is the extreme position.
Being able to have votes is a relatively new idea relative to civilizations of man. Allowing children (women) to vote is even more new, just a few decades.
Extreme is always relative to the recent medians in the current nation. Usually just like the last three overlapping generations that make up the majority of the voting base, so Gen X, Millenial and recently Z.
Its extreme to not murder babies in a lot of places historically speaking, but I still think abortion at the level it is would be considered quite extreme to the Left to most people here. Same with not being taxed for all of your income constantly being a pretty extreme position if we call it relative to all of history.
In this case, letting women vote was extreme at the time. But it became normalized enough that people didn't think anything of it beyond simply being the state of things. For people to know want to remove it entirely and discuss it casually is a growing extreme position.