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Originally Posted by Itse
This is obviously how you feel so by definition you can't be wrong.
However, if people like you abandon the left, that just makes the left that much more prone to obnoxious crusades.
Personally I would hope that you and people like you just ignore the loud minority of the moral crusader types on the left. They really don't have that much actual political power. The real power is still with the moderate centrist types.
Utilitarian liberalism is still the best protection from all types of moral crusaders.
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A very good point. The emptying out of the middle has left our political systems very vulnerable to the authoritarian impulses on both right and left.
I actually think utilitarian liberalism is the vehicle for the left's current authoritarian streak.
Currently, the Left pines for the optimism of the 1960s, while the Right does the same for the 1980s.
It is difficult, if not impossible, to detach both perspectives from the place and times they view as defining America the most.
Canada is a bit more complicated. I feel that Canadian conservatives are particularly out of touch.