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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
This isn't necessarily my opinion of why things went too far (it's not like any of it drove me right as I feel I've long been helplessly sitting, watching things unfold) as it doesn't take a genius to figure out that going to far on this stuff would start to alienate a large population of moderates.
-Cancel culture
-Woke capitalism/opportunism
-Virtue signaling
-Identity politics
-Moral superiority
There's a subset of the population that is staunch left and right. Those people have made up their minds and their opinions will likely not waver. At the end of they day they don't matter. What Fuzz and other extreme leftists need to understand is that overreaching and and alienating moderate supporters is not the way to gain majority acceptance and will never be the right way. This "you are either with us or against us" mentality of the far left is it's greatest failing and the reason far right activists have gained so much traction all around the world. People got burned out by all of this and it's not that people are leaving the left and more that the left is leaving people.
I get a sense that a lot of the leftists here are hyper focused on the far right when they should be looking at appealing the moderate supporters who ultimately decide the governing parties and the reality is that they have done a poor job especially in the USA.
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"Helplessly sitting"... You have a vote. Did you use it to turn your back on the right that is going to far? I'm not about to Pepsifree your post history, but I can't say I remember you ever using your voice here to express horror at anything the right has ever done. And if you don't find horror in it, well... I guess I'm extreme left.
I don't care to coddle people that have shown zero ability to reflect on the source of the issues, and instead blame those just trying to prevent the crumbling of social norms. As if you would reflect any differently if I had come with roses and chocolate. Why should I bother? Better to call out the rediculousness of the position, if only for a little catharsis.