What’s Driving Former Progressives to the Right?

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[–]Hematomato 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Here's what she missed; they're not turning to the Right. They're turning to the Anti-Left.

They've got no interest in the few policy ideas still identifiable as "right." They don't want to seal off the borders to immigrants or force women to have unwanted children or enforce mandatory school prayer.

They just think the left are a bunch of fucking cunts, and the reason they think that is the left are a bunch of fucking cunts. They have a culture of hyperjudgmentalism and they get off on aggressively flouting a moral superiority that doesn't have a single actual action to back it up.

I know this group well because I'm in it. I could never vote for a Republican, but now I can't vote for a Demcrat either, so I just shrugged and cancelled my voter registration.

[–]iamonlyoneman 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

No comrade, you had me until the last bit! Re-register and vote Losertarian. If they get >5% this cycle, they'll get public funding next cycle, and maybe someone worth voting for could actually end up in the race.

[–]Hematomato 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Ehh, without a parliamentary system or at least national IRV, no third party can ever be more than a spoiler in this system.

So unless those things come someday, thirty-partying it seems like nothing more than wasted time.

[–]iamonlyoneman 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

This system desperately needs a spoiler, at the least!