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Old 12-09-2015, 12:30 PM   #2135
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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher View Post
I think the coming decades will be marked by increased friction between liberalism and the new left (which is anything but liberal). Science and empiricism will reveal things about the human condition that are anathema to the abstract doctrines and unchallenged pieties of the left, and will provoke fierce attacks. We're starting to see the breach already in academia, where liberal and tolerant academics are waking up to the monsters they've fostered in their own nest.
Well I did say "mostly" errors of excess, but there is certainly some dogmatism in every political leaning. I don't really think the left-right spectrum is very useful anymore, other in the sense that the nutbars self-identify themselves as one or the other, which helps to differentiate them out from the more reasonable and thoughtful.

Perhaps it's just that, being in North America, we have a far larger "rightist" population so there is statistically a greater chance that any particular loony is a fellow-traveller of that type. So the anti-GMO crowd, for example, is a lot smaller than the pro-militia crowd. Perhaps in Europe I'd think the ratio was more around 50/50.
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