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Originally Posted by GirlySports
I thought it was the opposite, people in the center are slowly considered as right wing. The wokesters on the left have everyone walking on eggshells. Eventually Rubecube will be considered right wing once he misspeaks about something.
For example, what do you guys think of Malcolm Gladwell? He's now being considered right wing. He's considered right wing due to his 10,000 hours, broken windows and junk science philosophies. And people who did their 10,000 hours and still not succeeding? Well that's just bad luck or bad timing. Very oversimplistic. He's beginning to go on more and more conservative podcasts.
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Personally just my opinion I think that where the United States has drifted (very) right and now you have the Democrats who seem almost centrist, not really Liberal- we have the exact opposite occurring in Canada.
Canada has drifted (very) left and now the right leaning parties need to move to center if they want any hope in forming government. You have a prominent poster here who just said he wants (all) natural resources and banks nationalized under what I would call an very corrupt government. That this is a reasonable thing to do. Think about that for a second. It also is ostrich like refusal to acknowledge the benefits of market based economic systems which over the last century or so have demonstrated far greater economic efficiency over nationalized industries. At its' heart, the belief that government provides this ray of sunshine and light escaping the problems of capitalist corporatism is hilarious. As if governments, like corporations, are not made up of human beings with fundamentally the exact same human flaws.
So the juxtaposition for Canadians is that you live in an increasing left of center society but absorb a lot of American right of center media.
Social media has done nothing but drive ordinary people to extremes of the spectrum and refuse to display empathy. This goes for everybody, including the rubecube, Pepsifree and Psycnets of the world, despite their reluctance to admit it and as people like Cliff have pointed out. I think that in fairness to these positions though, it has been the right wing zealots that have steadfastly refused to play by the ordinary rules because they just aren't benefitting from them anymore. As has been mentioned ad nausem, to think that ordinary breadbasket Americans just lap onto Trump because "they're all idiots" is folly of the highest order. Rather I think that people are people, and the (very) large majority of people are centrist by nature that just want to take care of their families and live a decent life. There is an elitist left going on in North America today, and there is an elitist left that just refuses to acknowledge its' shortcomings. It's just the way it is. A permeating arrogance that looks condescendingly down on the lower to middle-lower class and then wonders why Trump and the Republicans are as popular as they are. It'd be hilarious if it wasn't so absolutely dangerous. But it is incumbent on
all people to look at their shortcomings and how to make things better- not fall into fascism via the right,
nor communism as to the left (nationalize banks and resources?!), as if one is a better solution to the other when we know from history neither is the best.