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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
I disagree. The pendulum tends to swing back and forth on these things. As the pendulum in the West moves past soft liberal and into the authoritarian hard left, the reaction against it will build up (because most people in the West do still value individual liberty highly), and the pendulum will swing back the other way...
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I sincerely wish you are right on this, actually. I just don't believe it is going to swing back towards centre. Hard authoritarian left is winning all over Canada. And once the pendulum passes the progressive-soft-left-intellectual point, it's into the radical–STFU–left zone, where it's going to stay for a long time. Easier for politicians to buy votes in that zone, easier to make promises, easier to govern, easier to subdue the discourse, easier to label all disagreed as the enemy of good.