Another attempt to say the left isn't evil, it's the right
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The nature of the conservative right is, more or less, to remain in place. To the left, the right appears to grow further and further away, becoming, in their eyes "far right", when the reality is that it is the left that is constantly moving further left, and therefore the right only appears to be in an "extreme" position relative to the position of the left. An extreme only appears extreme to the opposite extreme. Thus, from the "far right" the far left looks insane, and from the "far left" the far right, likewise, looks insane. The key difference between the two is that the right has barely moved, whereas the left continues to trend ever further leftward, so that, to the left, any position right of left appears, as they gain distance from it, more and more extreme.
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.