I changed it from clearly defined to singular in the edit. You have an "Us vs Them" rhetoric that comes out more loudly when things get rougher, and I think it's reducing your means in the moment of exploring a bigger picture.
In most cases it can't be reduced to just a binary, that level of simplifying ignores way too much, especially in the modern age.
You have to look at this as that. This current climate is by design now about identity politics and it is the only way to combat it.
I disagree, I think by taking in a bit from everyone that you can begin to pull at the common factors and differences between them in an attempt to find bigger answers.
You're at this point saying you need this rhetoric like armor, when I personally don't feel very threatened. I grew up as "counter-culture" while watching the world "catch up" to ideas people like me were already having, while now you're having your turn as the "counter-culture" as your ideas grow outdated.
It's a multifaceted situation, and simplifying it does yourself a disservice. That's specifically what both sides want, a dummy who goes for easy palatable information.
Try to understand this like a businessman instead of as a conspiracy nut, follow the components that comprise it's structure instead of just coasting on sensationalist claims. Parties are an illusion meant to push a social civil war that'll exhaust us against eachother, the whole "A nation divided cannot stand" angle.
You can't pander a middle ground anymore unless you're working within the confines of your own party. There is no both sides approach, one side clearly has the vast majority of support, immunity and is out of check.
You don't have to pander to a middle ground to otherwise judge or dislike both sides.
This is just more bipartisan politics from you. There's no reason to pick a side unless you're settling with Blue Pilling.
You can in your own beliefs keep centrist ideals. But you wont make a difference pandering like that.
Is it even centrist?
Centrists are taken by people as "wishywashy", while I'm taken as "the enemy" of both agendas. I'd say that I am largely Counter-Culture with a bender against The Censor and Corporate Tie Ins, and that my experiences within Pop Culture, Art, and a smattering of History's shown me how these enemies don't pick a side either, but rather take up banners of convenience to push terrible goals under both guises.
To hate what both do does not make me a blend of the two, but rather a critic of each.
Why does this need explained
It needs explaining over how everyone isn't you. This elitist stance over a Kindergartener's sense of "Good vs Evil" isn't really palatable towards people who've done more research.
I pick the stances that I do because they support my individual interests, hence how I can be flagrantly transexual while not being the LGBTQ's pawn. I see how both sides are trying to appeal to emotion right now and, frankly, it's gross to see them try to coast on logical fallacies meant to garner in bigger numbers.
Intolerance and violence never have been.
Both. Sides. Do it.
Is it just shocking you because you were raised during a time where The Right controlled The Censor? This just looks like more corporate shenanigans to me within a new social climate that's responding to changes in it's tools.
How much danger do you think you're even in, really?
You can say that, and point out some fringe instances but you're refusing to acknowledge the left is doing it exponentially more than the right.
Exponentially is a huge claim when you use History as your basis.
You're just sad to see the side you're not as fond of currently having more pull socially, lighten up. Left's been waiting for their turn for a bit now, and soon enough it'll fall into another party's hands again, and again, and again...
It's a human problem.
Why would you sidestep to history when this is clearly about what's happening right now?
History repeats itself, and it's doing so with familiar tools.
You're acting all blind sighted, likely because The Right once wielded The Censor more pridefully. I've been disillusioned for over half of my life, so I've had more time to explore how Red and Blue aren't what's worth looking at, but that what matters here is the Green (money, not the party).
Even historically democrats have never been treated this bad and even if they were is this somehow supposed to justify this?
Historically speaking the Democratic Party was more traditionally Right Wing while the Republican Party was more Leftist. It doesn't make sense to compare the two when it was a drastically different environment where entirely different politics wore familiar clothes, but...
...it does make sense to analyze the tools that were used at the time for commonalities. It might be new names for things, but a lot of it's callbacks on the classics within a new toolset.
Yeah Bro, im just mad the dems are gaining traction. DEFINITELY NOT BECAUSE MY RIGHTS ,MY HISTORY IS BEING SHAMED/DESTROYED BEFORE MY VERY EYES AND AMAZON IS TELLING ME TO LOVE IT.
There is no right wing resurgence, that pendulum stopped the moment the media got bought out. There will be this last one from people alive before the media monopoly, but if we don't come out the victors the right will cease to exist as we know it.
Go back to Bush II for a minute and tell me this isn't a flipped mirror.
Their politics had bands becoming defunded for speaking against the party, entire shows worth of parody were ripped off the air for mocking our president, and that was the start of "what I say online" being monitored. Even library records for who checked out a Qur'an without being put onto a government list.
Congrats my dude, you're now feeling how The Left felt years ago. Facebook was not our safe space at that time either, but at least your party made their own platforms to continue discussing their personal freedoms. If anything, this time period offers more for your people than it did for The Left during it's time as the underdog during a time of Information Warfare.
Catch up dude, this isn't news, it's developments on older news. It's really not this shocking, it's the US's corporate face being led astray through two differing sets of fascist rhetoric.
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