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Originally Posted by CaptainYooh
But each one of them is not a permitted weapon in the Liberalism arsenal.
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I'm not sure you understand the difference between liberalism and new liberalism (the regressive left).
I'm happy for you to prove me wrong, but there seems to be a weird reaction from conservatives (look at RyZ's post in the Egypt news anchor thread) where a particularly restrictive and dangerous tenant of the regressive left is generalised against the entire left of centre spectrum.
As always, the centre (whether left of or right of) will defeat radicals. It's what happens. This idea that there is no centre, only left and right, is partisan and petty. It's immature.
In reality, there is the far left (5%), the ignorant left (10%), the far right (5%), the ignorant right (10%), and a huge swath of people in the middle (70%) with a lot in common, similar goals, but just slightly different ideas on how to get there.
Those percentages are not scientific, just how I view the western world. The more partisan and "left vs right" you try and make things, the more ignorant people become, and the more the majority of rational people in the middle believe they need to pick.
People are far too focused on left vs right, what's the left complaining about, what's the right doing, etc. That's a huge reason why there is impotency in the fight against radicalism. We're far too busy wanting to talk about what someone else with a different political stance isn't doing correctly.
The regressive left hasn't accomplished anything. Nor has anyone else. Do we have solutions?