Another attempt to say the left isn't evil, it's the right
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You are correct, but I do think in recent years the Right has begun to move further right, at least in part.
We wouldn't have quite so much anti-gay, anti-race, heck anti-Jew beliefs popping up outside of fringe forums if they weren't.
This is almost certainly a reaction to the Left finally reaching a terminal point of extremism itself, and thereby causing stones that had settled into place to begin rolling again, but it has begun to move.
I'd say it's just moving back where it belongs after being dragged left by the mainstream media for a while. If you tried to explain shit like Drag Queen Story Hour to a the average Joe 20 years ago and he actually believed you, he would react with extreme disgust. That is normal.
That's still moving Right. The fact that the Right itself was moved Left is a problem, but its absolutely the case that it was moved and not simply a static spot that only changed relatively.
Average Joe right winger 20 years ago still believed we could live in harmony with the niggers and be Americans together. That same guy probably wants them lynched today.
The timeline is long enough that both this is true and for many people that "original position" was never in their lifetime so its fair to say it is a huge shift to them as well.
This is something true in theory, but, like communism, manifests completely differently in reality. We can see just in this very forum that the Right is fractured among many different beliefs and even more so "what do we do with" type beliefs.
Whether that's pragmatic "we do what we need to do walk the path" beliefs, or genuinely breaking from the Right of old, we can hardly find two guys who agree on everything.
The Left doesn't have this problem because, as you said, they have no beliefs so they can just mind meld together, whereas the Right has to compromise together to stay a mass big enough to matter. In better times, we would be fighting among each other about whose belief is better but at the moment we have to bundle up to fight the horde that is the Left.