That's a good chart to illustrate his point, but it would be more accurate if he stayed to the left of center instead of moving right. The center shouldn't move at all, despite how far things go to either side.
To be fair, the right had been moving farther right for many years before this. Maybe the left just wanted to not be outdone? :]
That's a good chart to illustrate his point, but it would be more accurate if he stayed to the left of center instead of moving right. The center shouldn't move at all, despite how far things go to either side.
To be fair, the right had been moving farther right for many years before this. Maybe the left just wanted to not be outdone? :]
The center/right/left will always be in flux. Things change, circumstances changes, people change. That being said, I still believe core foundational principles, morality and good values are timeless but how these play out in real life depend on so many factors.
It does when it comes to god and country. They both have their righteous zealotry, they just worship different idols. To me, the only practical difference between the far right and far left is that the former is old and the latter is new.
The center is completely relative, as being between the right and left, roughly equidistant, so if the right keeps moving right faster than the left moves left, the center is going to move right as well, yes?
Hmm, that's a good point. For instance, gay marriage was probably a very extreme Left position to take not 3 decades ago. And freedom of speech, once firmly a liberal stance, has now pretty much crossed the center line.
But there are also a lot of things that haven't moved for like a hundred years either, like limited government and free-markets in the case of conservatives. I feels like to me that some things are fluid and others aren't. And that maybe it's the non-fluid aspects of political ideology that people point to when this subject comes up.
That's a good chart to illustrate his point, but it would be more accurate if he stayed to the left of center instead of moving right. The center shouldn't move at all, despite how far things go to either side.
To be fair, the right had been moving farther right for many years before this. Maybe the left just wanted to not be outdone? :]
The center/right/left will always be in flux. Things change, circumstances changes, people change. That being said, I still believe core foundational principles, morality and good values are timeless but how these play out in real life depend on so many factors.
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It does when it comes to god and country. They both have their righteous zealotry, they just worship different idols. To me, the only practical difference between the far right and far left is that the former is old and the latter is new.
The center is completely relative, as being between the right and left, roughly equidistant, so if the right keeps moving right faster than the left moves left, the center is going to move right as well, yes?
Hmm, that's a good point. For instance, gay marriage was probably a very extreme Left position to take not 3 decades ago. And freedom of speech, once firmly a liberal stance, has now pretty much crossed the center line.
But there are also a lot of things that haven't moved for like a hundred years either, like limited government and free-markets in the case of conservatives. I feels like to me that some things are fluid and others aren't. And that maybe it's the non-fluid aspects of political ideology that people point to when this subject comes up.