That is a problem, I think we've lost sight of what it means to be a moderate, or rather we each have our own idea of what a moderate is and that tends to shoehorn people automatically into the other camp. Take Buck calling me a leftist. I'm all for the 2nd amendment and I own and really enjoy my guns, but I also think we need some common sense gun laws to try to at least chip away at the rampant shootings occurring in our country at rates literally orders of magnitude higher than any other developed nation, but I think we also need to find ways to address mental health issues in conjunction with these gun laws so people who are unstable can't get guns as easily. So which camp am I in? Remember, I by our modem definition MUST be shoehorned in one camp. So am I a right wing gun nut because I own, shoot and really enjoy my guns and don't want to give them up? Am I an irrational leftist who hates the Constitution because I feel we need a few restrictions on gun ownership? We've entirely lost the ability to have any level of nuance in opinion in this country. It was already happening way back in the 90's. We saw it exemplified in the Iraq war when Democrats voted to go to war then immediately backpedaled when they saw this was unpopular instead of sticking to their guns and owning an actually decision. And again when Obama killed Romney because he 1) said "binders full of women" and 2) was one of the few politicians who was capable of changing his mind (on abortion no less) but wasn't allowed to do that since he was then a "flip-flopper" when really that is the kind of politician we should want, one who has the convictions and intelligence to get new information, incorporate it into his world view, and make a reasoned decision to change his mind accordingly. But no, we must all be automatons with no ability to think beyond the party line, which lead us inexorably to the final evolution of this kind of no-quarter-given politics in a race to fascism on one side and an inability to put together 2 ideas to figure out how to stop the fascist on the other and no one is allowed to occupy any middle ground. But this is the inevitable position of a pure 2-party system. We won't survive this long-term if this model of political system isn't upended with a viable third party.
You bring up the 2nd Amendment and you don’t want to give up your guns, yet you don’t bring up how you wanted Kamala who is for mandatory gun buyback. You don’t even stand up against this.
Mandatory gun buyback - Far Left
Let’s talk about how you want a department of speech. You want the government to govern our speech and online communication.
Government speech control - far left
Let’s talk about expanding the courts. You’re upset that the SC is leaning more right than left. But you cheer to expand the court only if the left does it. I don’t hear you wanting to expand the court now.
Court expansion - far left
Wealth and Billionaires. So anti wealth and increase of taxes. Blame issues on wealth and people who are successful.
Anti Capitalist - far left
You want to claim you’re moderate yet your policies are very far left (for America). You are not as far left as Thriller but you’re not moderate or have any right wing policy wants
You agree with calling me a ….ing Kook. Yet my views are:
Protect 2nd A
Don’t expand courts for either side
Pro Capitalist
Pro Free Speech
Pause immigration/ don’t deport
German style health care
Free government sponsored college
Larger social net
UBI
Smaller military
Yet you call me MAGA and a Trump lover and far right. Yet those positions do not fit in the right or left. But I’m a kook for these positions…yet these positions would bring the country together and bring more people to the middle than going Far left or Far right.
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