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Originally Posted by PsYcNeT
I like how the litmus test for "moderate" now is "doesn't hate gays".
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Fifteen years ago, if you checked the following boxes, you were firmly and unequivocally on the left.
- Pro gay marriage
- Pro choice
- Pro gun control
- Opposed to the death penalty
- Opposed to waterboarding and other forms of "enhanced interrogation"
- Against the war in Iraq
- Opposed to draconian criminal sentences
- Opposed to religion in schools
- Pro teaching of evolution
- Recognize that climate change is a thing
Apparently, you can now check all of those boxes and still be classified as a rung or two up from being a neo-Nazi. I'm not sure your litmus test is the one I'm going to count on, honestly.